Letdowns Quote by John Irving Download Open image “Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.” — John Irving ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Letdowns Writing Writing life
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well. — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece. — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality… — Deborah Reber Copy Share Image
Writing is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. It always feels good when you finish. — Ray Guy Copy Share Image
A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more,… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside… — Marc Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from… — John Irving Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean––make sure they know what they mean! — John Irving Copy Share Image
The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“God, I think I just hit a high E-flat - and I really held it!" Esmeralda said, after one of her more prolonged orgasms,… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia!" Miss Frost cried. "You´re nostalgic!" She repeated. "Just how old are you, William?" She asked. "Seventeen, " I told her. "Seventeen!" Miss Frost… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“JUST BECAUSE A BUNCH OF ATHEISTS ARE BETTER WRITERS THAN THE GUYS WHO WROTE THE BIBLE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE THEM RIGHT!" [Owen Meany] said… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Only the chicken-lover will understand me. He will give me a kindly look, maybe mildly desirous. His eyes will tell me: You might look… — John Irving Copy Share Image
You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I feel a little more tired than usual, ... Ive had to recover from everything, my illnesses and things this summer. Its not perfect… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
We can't be satisfied as a team. We have one goal in mind right now and it's the next game. We want to get… — John Desko Copy Share Image
The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing… — Alessandro Nivola Copy Share Image
You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
These days it seems like any idiot with a laptop computer can churn out a business book and make a few bucks. That's certainly… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
You dream about the Olympics for so long and you have that one day, then it's over, and when you don't run well there… — Ryan Hall Copy Share Image
THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on… — Oscar de la Renta Copy Share Image
Entropy is one of the laws of thermodynamics. It's a physical law that says everything in nature is moving from order to disorder. In… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
