Aspect Quote by Anna Quindlen Download Open image “I do think there's some aspect of being a novelist that is a little crazy making.” — Anna Quindlen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aspect Crazy Littles Novelists Thinking
You don't have to be crazy to be a writer, but it certainly does help — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
A lot of being a writer doesn't have anything to do with writing. It's ironic - I have to squeeze the books in, even… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
I think it's possible to be just a fiction writer, and I don't think that it's a luxury. Oftentimes, what fiction does is approach… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
You teach your 16-year-old with your heart in your mouth to be a good driver and none of that makes any difference when some… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I’ve finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality-delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place, now and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Yet there was always in me, even when I was very small, the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. And wander I did, although, in my everyday life, I had nowhere to go and no imaginable reason on earth why I should want to leave. The buses took to the interstate without me, the trains sped by. So… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means. And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. True… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share
It is according to the shapes that I lay the plans for victory, but the multitude does not comprehend this. Although everyone can see… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I believe that simple, consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily lives, including… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
I do miss the social aspect of sitting in a pub with a pint but you know what when I get down to it… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Some say that you should not want money at all because the desire for money is materialistic and not Spiritual. But we want you to remember that you are here in this very physical world where Spirit has materialized. You cannot separate yourself from the aspect of yourself that is Spiritual, and while you are here in these bodies you… — Esther Hicks Copy Share
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal body or total mastery of all aspects of the art form, but on the stage they possessed magnetism-true artistry, by which I mean a charismatic quality. You can work with a coach to try and develop… — Fernando Bujones Copy Share
I love fall because I love the whole cuddling aspect of it, and a sweater dress has that vibe of I'm going to hunker… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I didnt like the Survivor shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create. — Sharon Lawrence Copy Share Image
