Discovering Quotes

489 Discovering quotes by 416 unique authors

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. — Robert Morgan
Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief. — Chuck Palahniuk
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. — Boris Pasternak
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to… — J. B. Priestley
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a… — Eudora Welty
By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential. — Robert Winston
You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!. — Rob Zombie
We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering,… — Pablo Neruda
Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain,… — Albert Einstein
That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact… — Joan Didion
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half… — Henry James
Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing… — William Stafford
All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason. Reason is the God-given means for discovering the… — Jonathan Edwards
I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of… — Poppy Z. Brite
The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself… — Neale Donald Walsch
Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be… — Marguerite Duras
Sometimes it works out well, and certain household responsibilities fall naturally to those who like doing them. For example, my wife likes to pack suitcases,… — Paul Reiser
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does… — Thomas Merton
Total commitment," I said. "You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding… — Sarah Dessen
We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's… — Anne Lamott
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few… — E. M. Forster
Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with-… — Ayn Rand
There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops. — Libba Bray
...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers… — Ira Glass

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