Crafts Quote by Joan Larkin Download Open image “I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.” — Joan Larkin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crafts Feels Fiction Ifs Love story Stories Writing Writing fiction
Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story,… — Emily Susan Rapp Copy Share Image
I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest. — Kate Grenville Copy Share Image
I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is… — Gillian Cross Copy Share Image
I get to use fiction as a way to work out my thinking and to delight readers in the process. I can't think of… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels… — Daveed Diggs Copy Share Image
When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
People need what they think of as a poem to be read at their bar mitzvah, their wedding, a funeral, whatever. And people are… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue it, whatever… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that. — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive. — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives people a… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
After I started publishing poetry I got to teach creative writing. Eventually I was promoted and even got tenure. But then I felt compelled… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start… — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are,… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me. — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival… — Janice Y. K. Lee Copy Share Image
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