Focusing Quote by Jesmyn Ward Download Open image “I didn't start really focusing on writing until I was 24.” — Jesmyn Ward ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Focusing Really Start Until Writing
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer. — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just delayed. Then,… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I think that voodoo as a spiritual tradition has been demonized for so long in popular culture. I wanted to write against that and… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
There's so much I love about home, but then there's a lot that I can acknowledge that I dislike about home. And acknowledging that… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“The dream of her was the glow of a spent fire on a cold night: warm and welcoming.” — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The first writer that I think of immediately that I studied with at Michigan is Peter Ho Davies. He was really important to me,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like so much of what happened in the Delta over the decades since slavery was abolished seems much closer in the Delta,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Vines catch my arms, my head; we tear through until we break out into the clearing before the fence, the field, the barn, the… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Before all the little mean things she told me gathered and gathered and lodged like grit in a skinned knee.” — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
People give the South a bad rap. It's often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have been true.… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I was the only black girl at a small, private Episcopal school, where my tuition was paid by the… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company. — Craig Sherman Copy Share Image
I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
“Once taken off one task without completing the transaction, the mind continues to seek closure. Fight to stay focused on the task at hand.” — Jeff Davidson Copy Share Image
“Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time criticizing the lives and work of… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
The hero is changing in Bollywood, and I approach a hero's role like a character by focusing on its weaknesses. I feel the weaknesses… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
I certainly have the problem of focusing on doing everything now to get where I want to be, and not actually seeing and taking… — Jonathan Keltz Copy Share Image
I'm trying to stop focusing on my flaws and appreciate what I love about my body. — Emily VanCamp Copy Share Image
I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
All I have to do is keeping on focusing on what Max Holloway does, and that's winning - and winning fashionably. — Max Holloway Copy Share Image
Not all Republicans are rich, dress in three-piece suits, and have $200 haircuts. I'm somebody who's lived from paycheck to paycheck. I'm focusing on… — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
Mentally, my key is just focusing on the little things I need to do in a race, whether that's tempo, turn entry, start speed,… — Shani Davis Copy Share Image
