Surprising Quote by Brent Weeks Download Open image “My writing has a lot of surprising twists,” — Brent Weeks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Surprising Twists Writing
I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
The element of surprise is the most important thing and what keeps me interested in writing. I can feel it if I've written that… — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by what you… — Mini Grey Copy Share Image
Writing, to me, is like kayaking a river. You are paddling down, and you come to a walled-off canyon, and you make a sharp… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked by what… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“life is our battlefield. We must do what we know to do, not what we want to do.” — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes. — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
It's easier for me to write certain character types because of my own life experiences, but I find it too artistically limiting to only… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
“At some point, you have to decide not merely what you're going to believe, but how you're going to believe. Are you going to… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Actually,” I said, hesitant to bring it up, “I was thinking along the lines of a curse that can turn you human.” “Or witch?”… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time,… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
It is thus hardly surprising that so many of the great minds in recent history have concerned themselves with economic matters. Indeed, they have… — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
Gerry Fialka's annual PXL THIS is a reliably surprising and seductive round-up of recent work achieved with the PXL 2000 camera. This humble outdated… — Michael Almereyda Copy Share Image
In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
I became the voice of a generation in a very surprising way, because many Iranians recognize themselves in it. But that is not what… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
