Books Quote by Diane Wakoski Download Open image “We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.” — Diane Wakoski ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Concerned Source Substance
“The essential ingredient of authorship is authority. You hunt it out in a library, you chase it down the street, or you knit it… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“As human beings, we have an innate need to create and innovate from within ourselves to address our own concerns, and writing helps fulfill… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
We are all creators. Whether or not we create is not up to us. We are human, and creating is what we do. Every… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire. — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
“Every author begins as a reader. So, read yourself into authorship.” — Blaque Diamond Copy Share Image
“Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“We put our thoughts, knowledge and ideas into what we write. We fill it with our passions, sometimes creating new businesses, new jobs, new… — Susan Feehan Copy Share Image
Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“Uneasy Rider" Falling in love with a mustache is like saying you can fall in love with the way a man polishes his shoes… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share
What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by ... creating… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image