I can Quote by Brad Listi Download Open image “I can think of plenty of writers whose work I revere and whose lives I know little about.” — Brad Listi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare I can Knows Littles Plenty Thinking Writing
If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any. — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery O'Conner, Carson… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work I find… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms,… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
There are many writers who have influenced me and who I enjoy reading, but Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks are at the top of… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing. — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to… — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, if a writer really gets her hooks into me, I'll want to read interviews, or listen to an interview, or read a literary… — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
I usually work seven days a week and rarely take vacations, which is both lame and unsustainable. I don't mind the idea of writing… — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
I feel like it's a good time to be a writer. I'm terminally optimistic. It seems like the publishing industry is in the middle… — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
Getting tired of sitting, staring at my computer screen, day after day, where everyone is two-dimensional, reduced to an avatar photo, status updates, or… — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
I'm a radio nerd. I've loved radio since I was a kid. I'm a huge Howard Stern fan. — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
I have way too much going on, as usual, but fortunately it's all good stuff. I'm not complaining. — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking. — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way. — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking. — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
I can only imagine the quiet horror that people must endure when they meet me in person. — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
People love honesty. Honesty is medicinal, I think. It makes people feel less lonely in the world. — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
My team mates are fundamental for my characteristics, if they send in crosses I can play inside the area. — Filippo Inzaghi Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know there's someone standing there to welcome you to the plane and I have to kind of get them to move a little bit so I can put my hand on the outside of the plane. It's… — Hope Davis Copy Share
I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized. — Gabrielle Reece Copy Share
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
From my experience of having served for 3000 days, I can say that anything can be achieved. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it as something mercurial that required all the right conditions, but now I know that even if I don't get any sleep, I can still work, I can power through. The stars don't have to be perfectly… — Laura Regan Copy Share
I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with… — Cliff Curtis Copy Share Image
I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
