Writing Quote by Durga Chew-Bose Download Open image ““Writing is a closed pistachio shell.”” — Durga Chew-Bose ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“I’m like a mussel, closed in my shell. It’s only you who can open me.” — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
“It's decorated with fig leaves and, for some reason, fish. I never look too closely when raiding it; the fish that makes up the… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
“The trouble is, writing the damn thing is like unscrewing your skull and pouring the contents of your brain into an empty tank. The… — Mike Carey & Peter Gross Copy Share Image
“One of the most necessary things when you're writing? The waste basket.” — Enkelejd Lamaj Copy Share Image
“It was like we were two halves of an oyster shell, and when you put us together, it hid the gray gunk inside.” — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“Writing is like eating Jelly with chopsticks. You know where you want the food to go, but you just can't get it there.” — Joanne McDonnell Copy Share Image
“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.” — Anna-Cosette Copy Share Image
“Without imagination, writing is a stack of lumber, a sack of nails, and a locked tool shed.” — Michael J. Kannengieser Copy Share Image
“The state is the coarse husk around the seed of life, and nothing more. It is the wall around the garden of human fruits… — Friedrich Hölderlin Copy Share Image
“A woman carries her inner life—lugs it around or holds it in like fumes that both poison and bless her—while nourishing another’s inner life,… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“There’s strength in observing one’s miniaturization. That you are insignificant and prone to, and God knows, dumb about a lot. Because doesn’t smallness prime… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“When those fault lines inside of us quake on account of all that is built up and unkempt between two people in love—on account… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“Feral rearranging. Letting form ferment. Letting form pass through you.” — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“There's a recording of Nina Simone's "Ain't Got No", where Simone, after listing all the things she doesn't have - a home, shoes, money,… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“Nook people confuse emotional truth with other varieties of truth. They are a composite of the last person who complimented them and the next… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“There’s might too in the incomplete. In feeling fractional. A failure to carry out is perhaps no failure at all, but rather a minced… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“Even then, when time decelerates and the relative importance of our lives, of our hurry, undergoes a sudden, essential audit; even then, our heart… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“Like the hurt we cause when we've been enduring too much in silence and have started to trust our own fixed claim that everything… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“Essays that do not concern these directors’ works but are addressed to them—in spirit, tone, wash—because these directors have, over time, caused me to… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“The genius of the word is that it’s more of an expression than a word.” — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch 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
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
