Newspapers Quote by Chris Priestley Download Open image “Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.” — Chris Priestley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Newspapers Strange Writing
I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one,… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers. — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing. — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer. — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“But she was no guardian angel. She was not trying to help me at all. She had been trying to claim me as she had claimed the lives of my fellow passengers. She was the thing that remained forever unseen in my visions of her tales. She lurked near the bodies of those whose whose lives were so cruelly taken.… — Chris Priestley Copy Share
“She had the the most extraordinary capacity for falling asleep at a moments notice. Any kind of pause in the routine was an excuse for a nap. I swear she was more cat than human.” — Chris Priestley Copy Share
After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story.… — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees. — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there… — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
“In my confused state I wondered if I had not died and gone to hell. And if this was the case, I wished that… — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
“Does something amuse you?' asked Uncle Montague. 'I was merely reminding myself, Uncle, that I am getting too old to be so easily frightened… — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
“I stood a little self-consciously. I was of an age when I was still unsure of myself in such formal matters as greetings and… — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
“it strikes me that the whole world runs on theft of one kind or another.” — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
“Give me a funeral over a wedding any day,.' said Uncle Montague with a sigh. 'The conversation is almost always superior.” — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share
I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that people traditionally… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex for each one, put in the upper portion of the body and boiled that for about two hours and then the lower portion for another two hours. The Soilex removes all the flesh, turns it into… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure… — Sumner Redstone Copy Share Image
Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul.… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
![“I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two months later and I assumed by then, "of course, everybody knows." Nobody knew. There was a news report in the Wall Street Journal, in the petroleum journals, and…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dc5/noam-chomsky-42_articles_i-wrote-an-article-about-the-marine-land_13341.jpg)
