Act Quote by Jess Walter Download Open image “I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.” — Jess Walter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Act Important Itself Less Subject Than Writer Writing
For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
It's much more important to write than to be written about. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever they are,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough?” — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“And Pasquale forced himself to look away from her then. It was like prying a magnet off steel, but he did it: he turned… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I've been simultaneously drawn to and repelled from Hollywood for years. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since. — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
“I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I'd be OK,… — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for… — Gary Ryan Blair Copy Share Image
“Don’t turn your face away. Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know. Open your eyes to the truth. It’s… — Vashti Quiroz-Vega Copy Share Image
I always advise people not to act upon the advice that I give them. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Regardless of what I do, whether I write a book or whether I act or whether I host, I'll always do stand-up comedy because… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
On 'Workaholics,' I feel like I'm just hanging out with my buddies being filmed, but on 'Mindy,' I'm around professional funny people who act.… — Anders Holm Copy Share Image
