"The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful……" — Seamus Heaney
"The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful … to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself."
More Afloat Quotes
- Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely… — David Byrne
- No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
- There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may… — Robert M. Hensel
- When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little… — Elbert Hubbard
- There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your… — Anna Quindlen
- Hell's afloat in lover's tears. — Dorothy Parker
- Go with the flow, but pray God keeps you afloat. — Angie Martinez
- That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been… — Benjamin Disraeli
- I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where… — Dinaw Mengestu
- I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a… — Jack White
- Let the Truth be known, no ship is unsinkable. The bigger the ship, the easier it is to sink her.… — Thomas Andrews
- In political activity . . . men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott