Break Quote by John Updike Download Open image “Writers’ lives break into two halves,” — John Updike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Break Half Inspirational Two
Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life. — William Styron Copy Share Image
Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It's fascinating to imagine two successful writers in one house. But when you think about it, it isn't very unusual. In fact, so many… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“Writers write for the same reason readers read. We want to know how it ends, too.” — Robynn Tolbert Copy Share Image
Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live… — Chrys Fey Copy Share Image
Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Things are going well in Germany because the economy is booming and as an export-driven nation, we are profiting from the fact that we… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
There were songs that we cut out after we chose the name, because 'Praise Break' turned out to be an underlying concept that I… — Daniel Caesar Copy Share Image
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph. — Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The purpose is to be in gratitude forever. Live with applied consciousness, prosperity will break through the walls, flood you with it. You do… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion… — Burne Hogarth Copy Share Image