Writing Quote by Jonathan Ames Download Open image “To write about a place, you have to live there.” — Jonathan Ames ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
Writing about a place is, of course, one good way of feeling close to it, feeling you have made something out of your interaction… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
There are two places that are hard to write about. A place like Britain, England in particular, which has been written about by everybody,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
It's easier to write about a place sometimes when you've left it, when you can apply your imagination to your memory and let your… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You can write better about a place you've seen for yourself. You don't have to have been there - I've sure written about places… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
There's a great joy in writing about a place you know very well, but there's also a lot of responsibility in trying to be… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“I do think everyone would be a lot happier if we laid eggs on our own and could just have friendship and didn't need… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
“Try to think about more important things,' he said. 'Think about your soul, your character. Think about the freezer. It's a solid block of… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
It was one of those days when every time I went to go out the door, something grabbed me in the back of the… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I wish we had a dog in the show so that I could get to be a dog for a day. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
“I know I experience great consolation when my mouth is between a woman’s legs. I think it must be because I’m drinking in her… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some kind of version of Asperger's meets… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image