Intoxication Quote by Jim Harrison Download Open image “Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.” — Jim Harrison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Intoxication Language Writing
A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Writers often have a 'drunk' that is different than anyone else's. That's why it's so insidious and so damning. First of all, because they… — Debra Winger Copy Share Image
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup. — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Writing is a job. A drunk writer is about as useful as a drunk surgeon. You can spend the rest of the day swimming… — Steve Gilliard Copy Share Image
I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
“Perhaps swimming was dancing in the water, he thought. To swim under lily pads seeing their green slender stalks wavering as you passed, to… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“(from: Age Sixty-nine) There is this circle I walk that I have learned to love. I hope one day to be a spiral but… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“. . . another year has passed, or so they say, but calenders lie. They're a kind of cosmic business machine like their cousin… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all.” — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
"For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“If you have gotten bored with God, you have gotten disconnected with the most fascinating, intoxicating Person in the universe.” — Catherine Toon Copy Share Image
Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called upon to… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
The intoxication of the faro drinker only shows itself at first by an increase in noise which is only deafening, and finally by a… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.It doesn't last very long. — Susan Kay Copy Share Image
The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture… — Bruno Bauer Copy Share Image
