Raw Quotes

702 quotes by 583 authors

The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw… — Natalie Goldberg
I play until my fingertips are raw. Until I rip a nail and bleed on the strings. Until my hands hurt so bad I forget… — Jennifer Donnelly
The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies. — Holly Black
he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons. — Frank Zappa
It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of civilization that comes… — Lionel Shriver
The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a… — Virginia Woolf
There's always hand-to-hand combat. All you need is to come up with a knife, and you'll at least stand a chance. If I get jumped,… — Suzanne Collins
I love you inâ€“in every kind of way.â€™ â€˜I feel like that too . . .â€™ His voice is shocked and raw. â€˜Itâ€™s â€“ itâ€™s… — Tabitha Suzuma
That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people… — David Foster Wallace
Raw toast," Lucas said grimly, shaking his head. "It goes against the very nature of man. — Julia Quinn
I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind… — Sue Monk Kidd
Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind. — C.E. Murphy
How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work. — Lawrence Durrell
By morning, she was raw and sore, and knew walking would be an effort. By morning, she could barely remember what it had been like… — Linda Howard
But the world moves on, even when you donâ€™t want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops. Thatâ€™s… — Ann Aguirre
Edward helped, making faces every so often at the raw ingredients-human food was mildly repulsive to him. — Stephenie Meyer
She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life. — Jennifer Egan
Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked… — Ann Brashares
It was as though the darkness was a sheet of raw cookie dough and someone had just taken a cookie cutter and made a child-sized… — Lauren Oliver

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