Dry Quote by Richard Russo Download Open image “I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.” — Richard Russo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dry Running Wells Worry Writing
Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance. — John Hall Wheelock Copy Share Image
People should be cautious how they treat writers, lest their faults become immortalized for the world to see. - D. — D Michael Hardy Copy Share Image
Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry,… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something. — John Irving Copy Share Image
“The aspiration of all writers should be to avoid leaving fissures in their work, to make sure that everything is properly secured so readers… — Marcos Giralt Torrente Copy Share Image
“The problem with the contemplative life was that there was no end to contemplation, no fixed time limit after which thought had to be… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about—acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Miles couldn't help admiring women for their ability to dismiss the evidence of their senses. If that's what explained it. If it wasn't simply… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Lucy, who apparently had no idea his girlfriend's father held him in such low regard, agreed with Noonan that he was pushing the envelope,… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“There was something about spending money they didn't really have that made him optimistic about more coming in.” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense? — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Meanwhile someone is shining my head to get it dry to attach my top-hat to my head with toupee tape. I get into microphone… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was… — Cassandra Clare 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
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I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked,… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as… — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image