Thing Quotes

36662 Thing quotes by 13492 unique authors

All the fun is in how you say a thing. — Robert Frost
I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and put words… — Robert Harris
Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even… — Stephen King
In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look true, and that… — Percy Lubbock
Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world. — Arundhati Roy
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite… — John Steinbeck
The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. — Gore Vidal
The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius,… — Aristotle
The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or saved up the… — Ellen Gilchrist
The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is… — Susan Sontag
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every… — Ernest Hemingway
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I… — Aldous Huxley
Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective… — Gustave Flaubert
For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should… — Gloria Steinem
I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere,… — Saul Bellow
To some people a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing… — William Blake
One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow. — Gladys Bronwyn Stern
The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good faster than good… — Alan Cohen
The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not… — H. L. Mencken
The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave… — Harrison Ford
Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to… — Karl Marx
It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an… — Mikhail Gorbachev
I worked around cattle all my life and I guess I learned all there is to know about it, and I think I can sum… — Unknown Author
There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting… — Milan Kundera

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