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Trying Quotes by Curtis Sittenfeld
- I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it…
- Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated…
- I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
- I'm so trying to give up meat.
- Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in…
- Later on, when I tried to imagine how I might have ruined things, that would occur to me - that I'd so rarely resisted, that…
- If a man wants to be romantically involved with you, he tries to kiss you. That's the entire story, and if he doesn't kiss you,…
More Trying Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash