Built Quote by Dan Rather Download Open image “Writing is the rock on which everything is built.” — Dan Rather ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Built Rocks Writing
Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose. — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a… — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind. — David Baboulene Copy Share Image
Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing. — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing. — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
“a democracy requires open access to ideas. It requires a willingness to struggle and learn, to question our own suppositions and biases, to open… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
“[I]nclusion, not assimilation, should be the key concept in seeking, ever seeking, a more perfect national union. Our own history has shown that we… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
He [Mikhail Gorbachev] has, as many great leaders have, impressive eyes....There's a kind of laser-beam stare, a forced quality, you get from Gorbachev that… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I think that's… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
College is like a woman: you work so hard to get in, and nine months later you wish you'd never come. We used to… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords… — Midge Ure Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really… — Emmett Shear Copy Share Image
Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm. — Hafez Copy Share Image
When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute; we wanted people… — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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