Familiar Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “The writer is always courted by invitations from the all-too- familiar.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Familiar Invitations Writing
The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing. — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person.… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places.… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain. She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly -the thought of the world's concern at her situation- was found… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
This kind of horror has become all too familiar to us. As parents, Cindy and I offer our prayers to the memory of the slain children and ask that God ease the pain of Littleton's suffering families, ... The students of Columbine High School and children everywhere have a basic right to learn in an environment free of fear and… — John McCain Copy Share
Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it go. Perhaps it was nothing more than the two doughnuts expanding in her stomach full of milk, but Amy felt a heaviness begin, a familiar turning of some inward tide. As they drove over the bridge… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share
I don't look to play people that are familiar. I look to play people that are different, challenge, unknown, foreign, and therefore scary. — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
My pet peeve is hearing a knock on the bathroom door followed by the familiar words, 'What are you doing in there? — Karen Scalf Linamen Copy Share Image
The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head. — Damon Wayans, Jr Copy Share Image
It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary. — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
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