Began Quote by Jenny Holzer Download Open image “I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.” — Jenny Holzer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Began Material Poster See Short Texts Were Writing
As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid. — Will Self Copy Share Image
The epiphany for me was that I wasnt a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life. — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
“Writing is a method for storing information through material signs.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I seem to be drawn to these smaller forms, and I seem to be drawn to things that can be written and also read… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic…Authors arrive at… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
People even split up by text message, they dump each other by text. Everything seems so disposable, so throwaway, but you have to engage… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
“MORE THAN ONCE I'VE AWAKENED WITH TEARS RUNNING DOWN MY CHEEKS. I HAVE HAD TO THINK WHETHER I WAS CRYING OR WHETHER IT IS… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
“Food won't go down when you know your mother didn't want you, never liked to feed you, always hated you in her rooms. You were wrong to clutch and swallow and move your mouth. You must not be flushed, layered in fat or ripe from meat or she will despise your sight. Your skeleton cries, "I make no demands, I… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share
SPIT ALL OVER SOMEONE WITH A MOUTHFUL OF MILK IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR PERSONALITY FAST. — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I began relaxing my hair, and that meant when I turned 18 it began to crack and fall off, and… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were… — Jack Adams Copy Share Image
I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism'… — Caleb Landry Jones Copy Share Image
When the 2008 victory of Barack Obama and the defeat of grumpy old John McCain began looking, um, inevitable, I started fielding inquiries about… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I was a photographer. That's how I began my career, behind the camera. — Shweta Tripathi Copy Share Image
The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history.… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
