Being real Quote by Rita Dove Download Open image “I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.” — Rita Dove ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being real People Real Writing
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one,… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person. — F Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
My inspiration comes from everywhere, just walking down the street and I never know where it's going to come from, so I keep a… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper,… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Don't be in such a hurry to condemn a person because she doesn't do what you do, or think as you think or as… — Malcom X Copy Share Image
Going through unknown people's profiles and judging them by their pictures is totally normal. — Pradeep Chandra Copy Share Image
When you are important to another person, they will always find a way to make time for you - no excuses, no lies, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think about everyone in my life that was harsh with me or who gave me tough love and told me things that I… — Charlamagne Tha God Copy Share Image
Laugh at every mistakes and realize that no one is perfect. We are human. All of us are imperfect, so there's no point judging… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Give yourself a chance to live because nobody will live it for you when you die — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You've noticed a change huh ? She doesn't text you as often . She never calls you anymore . When she does text you… — Delaney Ridnour Copy Share Image
I wish that one day you would finally realize that the person that is willing to love you forever is the person you are… — Khat Leen Copy Share Image
..If you love her/him then why give up, nobody said love was easy and nobody said love was hard... a relationship is what you… — TEVIN BOSTIC Copy Share Image
I learned a tremendous amount about what was important to me as a head coach in that I was not in charge. I didn't… — Pete Carroll Copy Share Image
