Attempting Quotes

314 quotes by 293 authors

Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters, into the very… — Anne Rice
Why do you think the Bible has survived thousands of years of tumultuous history Why is it still here Is it because its stories are… — Dan Brown
In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical,… — Stefan Zweig
They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and… — Willa Cather
Daphne," he said with controlled gentleness, "what is wrong?" She sat down opposite him and placed a hand on his cheek. "I'm so insensitive," she… — Julia Quinn
The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think… — Shannon Hale
As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent. — Steig Larsson
With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without… — Jared Diamond
When you write, itâ€™s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still… — Edwidge Danticat
Most people are chained to their own fear and stupidity and havenâ€™t the sense to level a cold eye at just what is wrong with… — Patrick deWitt
In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more than we are… — Alan Turing
Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to fill in the position of the planets… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves. — Saul Williams
I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work. — Paulo Coelho
In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and… — Arthur C. Clarke
See? Youâ€™re the crazy one, you redheaded freak. Iâ€™ve been attempting to translate the phrase into Latin. If I ever succeed, I shall make it… — Kirsten Miller
I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky… — A.M. Homes
There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we love, those with… — Peter Rollins
It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world. — William Cobbett
George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said Our God is… — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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