Books Quote by Anne Waldman Download Open image “My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.” — Anne Waldman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Father Frustrated Great american Novel Parenting Thinking Wanted Writing
My father mainly liked writers. His friends were writers. He wanted to find the writing. That was his main frustration I think. — Stephen Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful… — Michael Tolkin Copy Share Image
My dad never really wrote what he thought. None of his inner rage and darkness and problems, which we all have, made it on… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
“IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren't written they are created.… — Shiree Mccarver Copy Share Image
My dad was very successful as a journalist, so I didn't want to be one. I wanted to be a novelist. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
It used to be that the highest ambition of American novelists was to write 'the Great American Novel,' that great white whale of American… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
The writer in my dad is someone whom I've been inspired greatly by since my childhood. — Wamiqa Gabbi Copy Share Image
My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I get worked up over an 'idea' or the ethos of an idea. I follow dreams, take notes on travels, and engage in research… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
We pride ourselves at Natrona - I mean, pride {ironically] - on developing a noncompetitive community. That's very important. The values that can come… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
No one begs you to be a poet or write a 1000-page poem. You have to be fueled by a drive, a conviction -… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of the people… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
There's a kind of training, when you are sitting in a session in the Japanese tradition or any of the Buddhist traditions, taking your… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger world. People… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
In a way, America's the shadow of everything I do, everywhere I go, everything I carry, no matter if I travel to the ends… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
We humans need to do better with our vast minds and alchemical powers. Future radial poetries might be more symbiotic with the rest of… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Idea that all the beats are wildly liberal and progressive is ridiculous. You have people thinking for themselves and having certain affinities because of… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper 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
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