Home Quote by Alfred Kazin Download Open image “One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.” — Alfred Kazin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Home Time Writing
“Making a self can be like writing, and now I think writing can be like home: a space you make that you dwell in… — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for the person… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own… — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.' — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work. — Randy Wayne White Copy Share Image
I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have… — Travis Tritt Copy Share Image
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my… — Jane Powell Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
![“I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my career], because so many things are on the road. I just don't want to be away from my husband, my dogs and my home. I don't sing that much any more because that also takes you on the road.” quote by Jane Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/07c/jane-powell-36243_away-from-home_i-don-t-like-being-away-from-home-that-s_278.jpg)
