Any Quote by James Lasdun Download Open image “There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.” — James Lasdun ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Any Couple More Natural Seem Seldom Students Than Who Workshop Writers Writing
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I've had many students over the years, sometimes even very sophisticated students, who will be writing and will hit a wall. Often I find… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts. — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
“Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people have little capacity for unyielding imagination, whereas the natural-born writer can do little but yield to the tug of imagination. Ordinary people may practice for years to 'perfect' the challenge of writing; but the one destined to create… — Brian A. McBride Copy Share
I am not a supporter of Israel's military policy, let alone any kind of Zionist. — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
“She waded into the water, splashing it on her waist and shoulders before kicking herself free of the ground and plunging in. She swam… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me. — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to writing a… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
“People are always in various stages of different dramas when you encounter them: freshly embarked on some, halfway or more through others. One is… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
To me sympathy for a character has little to do with how morally upstanding or wicked they are. All that really matters for me… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
“...for a moment he seemed to see himself as if in a dreamlike film, surrounded by kindred spirits at the warm center of some… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either. On the… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in very serious… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence to total… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates. — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
America as a setting seems inexhaustibly fascinating to me, and I think there's something about the outsider viewpoint that works for me. Being of… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those… — Marie Avgeropoulos Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program. — Aaron Schock Copy Share Image
Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them;… — Tom Wlaschiha Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
