Banging Quote by Billy Collins Download Open image “While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.” — Billy Collins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Banging Novelists Poet Poetry Typewriters
One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break. — Daniil Kharms Copy Share Image
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window. — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window. — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A writer is never just looking out of a window or staring into space. They are building a universe to share with the world” — Brenda Ashworth Barry Copy Share Image
“There are times you wake up in the middle of the night, fingers hit the keyboard and you allow words to flow. That is… — Jenn E 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
“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
“Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“The whole idea of it makes me feel Like I’m coming down with something, Something worse than any stomach ache Or the headaches I… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's so — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky... — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
A trouble with poetry is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes for granted… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves, Giovanni Pontano… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
You know how sometimes you just have a memory of looking up and seeing a face looking over your crib and then remember nothing… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I was banging seven-gram rocks, because that’s how I roll. I have one speed, I have one gear: Go. — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
A lot of banging in the head has built up over the decades, and for my own sanity, I needed to write. I wanted… — Martin Donovan Copy Share Image
The Metallica film was like this incredible life experience where I learned the most through guys that stereotypically you would think couldn't offer much… — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
Basically Ken is a very gentle, home-loving person. I remember when one of his stick insects had a knee infection. He stayed up all… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I love the protests. And if you think about it, what better way to send a message to Wall Street than by sitting in… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm. — Malin Akerman Copy Share Image
You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn… — John McEnroe Copy Share Image
I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be… — Nat Wolff Copy Share Image
At moments when life is at its worst there are two things you can do: 1.) break down,lose hope and refuse to go on… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Directing takes a lot longer than acting. This was about seven years in development, and then two and a half years with pre-production, production,… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one’s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of town banging… — Stephen King Copy Share Image