Witness Quote by Edward Hoagland

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

You are the witness, to whom things happen but who remains a witness. Witnessing is the art of nonidentification, and nonidentification is all. Nonidentification…

— Rajneesh

I believe photography is about choosing to live, being brave. Looking is an act of courage. It's terrifying. It's possible to see too much,…

— Laurel Nakadate

“I will never know, because I will never be able to be in the position to witness those things. And I don't care to…

— Maria Karvouni

Standing as a witness in all things means all things - big things, little things, in all conversations, in jokes, in games played and…

— Margaret D. Nadauld

“She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I think the ultimate thing in some ways for any writer is to work on a character who's going to have a life for…

— Peter Gould

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what,…

— Marcel Proust

“We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of…

— Northrop Frye

I'm a comic book writer, so I work with a lot of artists. Sometimes, you get art back, and you're like, 'Oh, no.' Sometimes,…

— Tom King

“the writer is [...] the work's way of getting itself written”

— Donald Barthelme

On a more technical level, a story takes a lot of words. And to generate words and phrases and images and so on, that…

— George Saunders