Aspiration Quote by Kevin Powers Download Open image “Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.” — Kevin Powers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aspiration Dreams Secret Writing
It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to.… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
There are so many ways of posturing that people associate with being a writer. They imagine you wearing a beret and drinking only red… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The writing process really became natural when it was real and from my heart, and I was exposed. — Tiffany Darwish Copy Share Image
I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear - that's what makes it powerful. — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
Writing is something Ive always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself. — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself. — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true. — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable. — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“I didn't want to be responsible for him. I had enough to worry about. I was disintegrating, too. How was I supposed to keep… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
I had the feeling that if I encountered anyone they would intuit my disgrace and would judge me instantly. Nothing is more isolating than… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“Through those drooping branches the city sprawled out haphazardly like a drunk on a sidewalk, fallen where he may.” — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“I've come to accept that parts of life are constant, that just because something happens on two different days doesn't make it a goddamn… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the guys I know and a lot of people I've talked to, what they want is very often what… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“People are going to die," he said flatly. "It's statistics." Then he got up and left the room.” — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“It's lovely to think that snow can be special. we're always told it is. Of all those million million flakes that fall, no two… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them. — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
It reminded me of talking, how what is said is never quite what was thought, and what is heard is never quite what was… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share Image
“No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk… — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
“A responsible woman doesn’t see opportunities and needs and look the other way pretending not to see them rather she gets to work to… — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past,… — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image
I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
One of the great crimes of the Bloomberg/Klein administration [in New York City] is that they've removed themselves from communities, as if communities have… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
