Writing Quote by Sherman Alexie Download Open image ““Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace.”” — Sherman Alexie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“I thought my fireplace dead and stirred the ashes. I burned my fingers.” — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
“There are things in the wood, things you wouldn't expect. There's a laugh behind a tree when nobody's around to make it. A flash… — Rebecca Hahn Copy Share Image
“In the peace of winter’s chill, I stacked firewood to fuel a stove that kept me warm. And I thought about how doing something… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“She threw a couple of logs into the fireplace and glared at them until they burst into flame out of sheer embarrassment.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“And a fire in the fireplace? Wow, that’s impressive.” I continued, walking backwards into the room. “Yeah, I saw it in a book about… — Alice Clayton Copy Share Image
“The world is but a pyre of timber waiting for the tiniest spark to unleash an inferno.” — Brian Rathbone Copy Share Image
“I would imagine being tied up and put in a haystack while someone put the dry, stale straw ablaze. I would picture it perfectly… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“you could blow on a fire to stoke it, but if you blew on a little flame, it would go out. He headed up… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I’m the kind of guy who will run into a burning building without thinking of the flames... especially since, you know, chances are I… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
“So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one’s soul, and yet… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
“He says the earth is an oval marble that nobody can win. He says the sky is not blue and the grass is not… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Now, in the old days, Indians used to be forgiving of any kind of eccentricity. In fact, weird people were often celebrated. Epileptics were… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Since Jesus was human then he most assuredly farted and burped. And if God did create us in God's image then God must fart… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“A century ago she might have been beautiful, her face reflected in the river instead of a mirror. But all the years have changed… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Is there really a difference between that killing and this killing? Does God approve of some killing and not other killing? If I kill… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Or maybe I could have anesthetized myself with homework and extra credit and binge-reading.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Dear wife, I'm sorry that I am mysteriously incapable of folding clean laundry, but I iron, oh, I iron. Sweetheart, I'll make your white… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
