Sketch Quotes

192 quotes by 164 authors

Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are… — Jane Yolen
A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B? — Spike Milligan
As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the… — Vladimir Nabokov
Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a… — Frances Mayes
A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch… — Virginia Woolf
If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down. — Lynda Barry
I look at my homely sketch. It doesn't need anything. Even through the river in my eyes I can see that. It isn't perfect and… — Laurie Halse Anderson
My breathing slowed. I shaded her thick chestnut hair resting in a smooth curve against her face, a large bruise blazing across her cheek. I… — Ruta Sepetys
You all watched a sketch about feminism and you didn't even know it because of all the jokes. It's like when Jessica Seinfeld puts spinach… — Tina Fey
THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features of the police… — Demetri Martin
She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those… — Guy de Maupassant
Simon had drawn three pictures. In the top left corner, like a salutation, was a ghost. The middle had a big sketch of Arnold Schwarzenegger… — Kelley Armstrong
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of… — William H. Gass
Whereâ€™s your sketch pad?â€ I asked. â€¦ â€œI gave that up,â€ Kay said. â€œI wasnâ€™t very good, so I changed my major.â€ â€œTo what?â€ â€œTo… — James Ellroy
Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words... — Yasunari Kawabata
I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is… — Vincent Van Gogh
I noticed you the first week. Not just because of how pretty you are, though of course, that played into it. It was the way… — Tammara Webber
There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil. Then sketch… — Daniel Handler

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164 authors contributed a total of 192 Sketch Quotes, led by these top contributors: