Rain Quote by Nic Pizzolatto Download Open image ““How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. —William Faulkner”” — Nic Pizzolatto ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Rain William Faulkner
I wrote a paper [in school] on [William] Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant. — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality. --Richard Wright to William Faulkner” — Richard Wright Copy Share
“It’s been raining outside and I feel like a sad poet, hating my imagination pissing on the roof.” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“Rain fell more steadily now. Grey and unrelenting. Nobody seemed to notice. Rain on the puddles. Rain on the high brickwork. Rain on the… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“The rain echoed in the shadowy attic space and made me feel small and fragile, like a lace glove left behind on moving day… — Dia Reeves Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, on days when the weather was beyond redemption, mere residence in the house, situated in the midst of a steady and continuous rain,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I hate the rain. When your heart is in chaos, this sky becomes terribly easily. Can you understand... the horror of being pelted by… — Zangetsu Copy Share Image
“Perhaps my story will allow someone to see their reflection in its muddy waters on some evening when they are lost and looking for shelter in the city at night. I can’t guarantee that the reflection will be of much help, or that these papers will offer even a fragile roof over their head. But here between these papers is… — Mayra Santos-Febres Copy Share
Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' had an immense effect on me, and most of my novels bear the burn marks of this experience, those… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“Why does the rain make us feel so romantic and strange? Maybe it's the fact that we are unnatural spectators of it, from inside our homes, and it is a reminder that we have the power to live our whole lives like this, if we choose. It's not the smell of fertile ground kicked up by raindrops, or the slick… — Amelia Gray Copy Share
Faulkner's characters, too, were uneducated. They were deprived, but they were allowed to have very rich inner lives. I want to advocate for that,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Home is not just walls and a roof; it is where the heart finds love and peace, and where memories take root, grounding us… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“For the rest of the day, her weight echoed in my empty hands, light but dense, her throes and kicks.” — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something. — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“She reminded me of the empty glass of a swallowed cocktail, and at the heart of the empty glass was a smashed lime rind… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I left the University of Chicago's creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in 2010 for… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me. — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“She sipped her drink and the ends of her lips curled, stamped two dimples on her cheeks, and in her smile flashed the danger… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“So I was wrong when I told Rocky you could choose what you feel. It's not true. It's not even true that you can… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“Some people. Something happens to them. Usually when they're young. And they never get any better.” — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it. — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
No matter how strong the storm, how hard the rain and how vicious the wind there is always a gap in the clouds for… — Ben Greenhalgh 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
Some would call me an environmentalist. I don't know why. I reuse the water that falls in my backyard in the winter. I reuse… — Ed Begley, Jr Copy Share Image
He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“A flower needs the rain to grow just as much as it needs the sunshine.” — Teresa Mummert Copy Share Image
“The next forty-five minutes in that office was about as much fun as a day at Disney World—when it’s pouring rain. And all there… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she didn't pull… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s… — Chaz Brenchley Copy Share Image