Access Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I always thought of writing as public, I never thought of writing a diary. I had been struck by, jolted by things I had…

— Vito Acconci

We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public.

— Grandmaster Flash

“My advice is to write in the nude. Unless you do your writing in a public restroom, and in that case, I’d recommend wearing…

— Jarod Kintz

“Most words come into being first in speech, then in private writing, and then in public, published writing, which means that if the date…

— Kory Stamper

Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my…

— Barry Ritholtz

For me, writing in public is actually super energizing and so much fun. Especially when writing can typically be really painful and certainly hard,…

— Robin Sloan

They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful People, ascendant…

— Tom Wolfe

alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases…

— Charles Bukowski

The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted…

— Tom Robbins

That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks,…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a…

— Steven Weber

History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.

— Richard M. Nixon

The attitude of gratitude is yoga. Ingratitude is "unyoga," like "uncola." Where gratitude is, there is yoga. Where there is ingratitude, yoga is gone.…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi