Discovery Quote by Joseph Epstein Download Open image “For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery” — Joseph Epstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discovery Thinking Wells Writing
Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is an extension of thinking - it's my way of processing, and only when I've gotten something down on the page… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing. — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I primarily write nonfiction. Research, reflection, and spending time with ideas are important to me. So, this is how I spend most of my… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is an inherent part of understanding the material on a deeper level. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me. — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
“To be in the middle of composing a book is almost always to feel oneself in a state of confusion, doubt and mental imprisonment....” — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones. — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
“Getting rid of most of my personal library comported nicely with my longheld fantasy of traveling light, existing with minimal encumbrances, living simply. A… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly. — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Throughout my work, I have assumed that the standard model is correct, and hence, the Higgs boson should be found. Although this is not… — Ashoke Sen Copy Share Image
There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
When we look at the love of Christ, we make a wonderful discovery. Love is more a decision than an emotion! Christ-like love applauds… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In December of 2007 human bones including skulls, which have been radiocarbon dated back to between 1304 and 1424, were found in a museum… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image