Fame Quote by Kent Haruf Download Open image “Fame isn't healthy for a writer.” — Kent Haruf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fame Health Healthy Writer Writing
Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Fame can be a double-edged sword, and you have to take the bad with the good. The highs are incredibly high, and the lows… — Emily Atack Copy Share Image
Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
“quit trying to fix things and we settled into our long polite and quiet life.” — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
“You understand? If you can read you can cook. You can always feed yourselves. You remember that.” — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
We'd do better to follow the admonition of Jesus about loving our neighbours. People in the U.S. are capable of forgiveness and willing to… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they were the Waltons or the… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
“Alene looked out toward the fading sky. There was only a little light remaining. It would turn nighttime now and soon they would return… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
“And so we know the satisfaction of hate. We know the sweet joy of revenge. How it feels good to get even. Oh, that… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
That was on a night in August. Dad Lewis died early that morning and the young girl Alice from next door got lost in… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
Some people say that 'Drag Race' is about glory and immortalizing yourself in the Hall of Fame. For me, it's about shaking RuPaul down… — Trixie Mattel Copy Share Image
Five World Series rings, 3000-plus hits, the fame, the fortune and playing for the second most historic franchise in baseball... These are just some… — Mookie Betts Copy Share Image
There's nothing like getting feedback that's positive and supportive. That's what I'm all about. I'm really just genuinely doing good music. I'm not looking… — Tiffany Villarreal Copy Share Image
Don't crave fame, do what you do and just apply. I don't think many of them here today are that interested in fashion. Perhaps… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
The Baseball Hall of Fame is something every player dreams about, but being a member of God's Hall of Fame is the greatest achievement… — Gary Carter Copy Share Image
I don't want to have anything to do with that: just the fame without personal respect for your privacy. — Lucas Till Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all! — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
