Eccentric Quote by Bret Lott Download Open image “Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.” — Bret Lott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Eccentric Education Lifelong Quests Writing
Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak. — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
“Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering old passions… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the… — Madelaine Standing Copy Share Image
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day,… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made by two… — Bret Lott Copy Share Image
“Tell the truth, but understand that it is not necessarily what happened,” is one of the things she told him. “Every good story is… — Bret Lott Copy Share Image
“literary fiction is fiction that examines the character of the people involved in the story, and that popular fiction is driven by plot. Whereas… — Bret Lott Copy Share Image
Were it not for the relationship I have with Christ, the world surely would have run me down by now....Certainly I'll never find the… — Bret Lott Copy Share Image
Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given . . . this… — Bret Lott Copy Share Image
“I felt on my back gentle pats like fragile wings just touching me, touching me: my grandchildren's hands.” — Bret Lott Copy Share Image
What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“You can drink your soup ice-cold, but it's no longer soup; you can do eccentric things in life, but if you haven't been able… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of… — Ellen Terry Copy Share Image
I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect. — Marian Seldes Copy Share Image
I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never… — Adrian Lyne Copy Share Image
May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It's thought of as an eccentric thing for an actor to really try to maintain quality control through the whole career. Most people think,… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course. — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and prfound thatn you suspect yourself to be--capable of doing more… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image