Rivers Quote by Natalia Ginzburg Download Open image “I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.” — Natalia Ginzburg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Rivers Thinking Writing
“A writer is a river. Everything flows and changes and we're never the same person as the one who wrote yesterday's story.” — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
I had, never been, A writer. My words, My thoughts, My feelings, Had always flowed, From my lips. And yet now, They simply flow.… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails... — William Petersen Copy Share Image
“Writing allows us to row the mind into new, unanticipated directions, change our stream of consciousness, and alter our very being.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A writer's will is the winds of dead calm in the Western Lands. Point way out he can start stirring of the sail. Writer,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Novel writing, I soon discovered, is like channel swimming: a slow and steady stroke over a long distance in a cold, dark sea. If… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Writing... is like putting a message in a bottle, and casting it into the evening tide... It is a container of yourself, bled through… — Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too. Both readers… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing. — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world. — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all. — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
Italy is a country which is willing to submit itself to the worst governments. It is, as we know, a country ruled by disorder,… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
England is a country where people stay exactly as they are. The soul does not receive the slightest jolt. — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
“When I write something I usually think it is very important and that I am a very fine writer. I think this happens to… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our… — Jim Wright Copy Share Image
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River… — Roy Barnes Copy Share Image
I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife - from Guangxi… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When we fall utterly, something gathers us up. But our falling must be without reservation, without expectation, without hope, though not hopeless. You cant… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
