Swimming upstream Quote by Rainbow Rowell

“When I’m writing my own stuff, it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the…

— Rainbow Rowell

“There is a moment, climbing a tree, when you know you should climb no higher. A winnowing of branches the farther you go, like…

— Ted Kosmatka

“The branch breaks that will not bend with the wind. You must learn to bend".”

— Wilbur Smith

“I am like a leaf on a river, riding along the top of the water, not quite floating, not quite drowning. So I can't…

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

“That’s what it’s like when you’re creating things. On the one hand, it really seems like you’re keeping it all moving on your own,…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“make this day a tree leaning over the river eternity and fuss about in its branches.”

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

“I think people who create and write, it actually does flow – just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they right…

— Paul McCartney

Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each…

— Ayn Rand

“In tough and desperate times when your creativity begs to be birthed, loose the confines of the ground; stand up in your faith and…

— Stanice Anderson

“I did not know I would struggle Through a ragged underbrush Without an upward path Because there is no path There is only a…

— Patrick O'Malley

“It was like fishing a swamp, where you feel the tug of something that at first seems promising and then resistant and finally hopeless…

— Tobias Wolff

“Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.”

— Emma Smith