Witness Quote by Edward Hoagland Download Open image “A writer's work is to witness things.” — Edward Hoagland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Witness Writing
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things. — William Stafford Copy Share Image
I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I believe a writer is an eye, a pervasive eye that sees the reality that surrounds us, as well as the impression it makes… — Mariela Griffor Copy Share Image
“I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture… — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
I guess a witness is all I am. I think as a writer, you're pretty removed. Writing is a very selfish, individualistic pursuit. So… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop. — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse? — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans. — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home? — Brian Celio Copy Share Image
We witness anti-Semitic attacks in the heart of Europe. We hear anti-Semitic slanders in European media. We feel anti-Semitic hatred in the continent that… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Intellectual methods-study and reason-are essential to our progress toward eternal life, but they are not sufficient. They can prepare the way. They can get… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile,… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
The end of foreign occupation is one of the pre-requisites if we are to witness any progress in our efforts to help Iraq go… — Amr Moussa Copy Share Image
When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there must be no silent witnesses. — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
The amount of money coming into Washington is not a factor when the Democrats start spending it. Witness Obama. National debt doubled in eight… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The violence perpetrated by men against women must stop - and it's up to men to stop it. It is up to men to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
