Discovery Quote by Ann Patchett

If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read,…

— Wilford Woodruff

In the 1970's and in early 1980's, a startling discovery was made that almost every problem contains an element of solutions.

— Insoo Kim Berg

“My next startling discovery: flaming breath is hot.”

— Rick Riordan

“and a day spent working for money is wasted while a day spent writing poetry is wasted but more honest.”

— Anonymous

Although I still think of myself as an actress, most of my time is spent writing novels or memoirs about my adventures and travels.

— Carol Drinkwater

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and…

— Hudson Stuck

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

— Margaret Haddix

“What was it then? What did it mean? Could things thrust their hands up and grip one; could the blade cut; the fist grasp?…

— Virginia Woolf

The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns.

— Jon Spaihts

I don't think I've ever made a claim to startling originality.

— James Murphy

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural…

— Eudora Welty

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

— Edwin Land