Belated Quote by Harold Brodkey Download Open image “Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity.” — Harold Brodkey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Belated Get back Kind Struggle Virginity Writing
Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I dreaded having to write. I would find every possible excuse not to sit down at the typewriter (this was… — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it, putting words on paper that have never been there in… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
I write all the time but often abandon things I don't think will go anywhere. It's rare that I'll labor over writing something that… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
“And why don't you write? Write! Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it. I know why you haven't written. (And why I didn't write before the age of twenty-seven.) Because writing is at once too high, too great for you, it's reserved for the great-that is for "great men"; and it's "silly." Besides,… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share
Writing is an extremely rewarding and humbling process, and I've learned to go with it, that even if it feels absolutely impossible, I will… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
“I figured I had kept her from being too depressed after fucking--it's hard for a girl with any force in her and any brains… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
“Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense) exposure of… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
“There is a certain shade of red brick--a dark, almost melodious red, sombre and riddled with blue--that is my childhood in St.Louis. Not the real childhood, but the false one that extends from the dawning of consciousness until the day that one leaves home for college. That one shade of red brick and green foliage is St. Louis in the… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share
I'm sixty-two, and it's ecological sense to die while you're still productive, die and clear a space for others, old and young. — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing. — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set. — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit… — Raul Grijalva Copy Share Image
I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at the top of my lungs, that it seemed to me almost a… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have a stop, while there is more to read than there ever was before. From the Yahwist and Homer to Freud, Kafka, and Beckett is a journey of nearly three millennia. Since that voyage goes past harbors as infinite… — Harold Bloom Copy Share
At any rate, that’s how I started running. Thirty three—that’s how old I was then. Still young enough, though no longer a young man.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been thinking a… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
Oh, dear." She let her head fall back to the pillow. "There it went. I've fallen in love with you now." "Just now?" Chuckling,… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image