Mind Quote by Raymond Pettibon Download Open image “Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.” — Raymond Pettibon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mind Psychology Writing
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it or not. For me, writing has little to do with thinking. I don't want to control the narrative. I listen to the rhythm of the words and dialogue and try to give the characters the space in which… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share
As a young kid I assumed that everybody was sort of on the same wavelength as I was and then I found out in a lot of small ways that that wasn't the case. It's sort of a mixed blessing. My mind is like a puppy. It goes all over. I guess writing fiction was a way of harnessing that.… — George Saunders Copy Share
I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different. — Rene Russo Copy Share Image
“Some people have too many crazy thoughts to keep bottled in their brains. They're called writers.” — James Gough Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer. — Julien Green Copy Share Image
Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's good to be stuck at one place. I'm probably too close to home on that. Because that can happen-where… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own versions. A… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
There are lots of guns and action in my drawings, and part of that is just to make them more interesting. Because you can… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Whenever I reference something, it usually comes back at some point. I don't know why. — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened. — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment...o r creating this alternate universe. Art gives me… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology. There's a lot of conventions in… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“MIND & GRIND Self-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Not that it matters, when you dream, there's no outside or in. Your mind is an unimaginable bloom. A willow catkin as big as… — Rich Shapero Copy Share Image
Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not here trying to convince anybody to vote for Donald Trump. I think every Christian needs to make up his own mind about… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the script and… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
We instantly believe everything we think. Isn't that insane? It's good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
![“Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the script and the screenplay of Simon (Beaufoy) and I was reading it, even before the shoot, some kind of sounds came into my mind and I put some stuff [down] and sent it to…” quote by A. R. Rahman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/573/a-r-rahman-4481_cutting_since-i-worked-with-danny-boyle-before-o_539.jpg)
