Author Quote by Steven Rinella Download Open image “Describing Wallace Stegner as an 'author' is like describing a grizzly as 'brown.'” — Steven Rinella ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Author Books Brown Describing Like
I'd be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner's, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn't even realize while… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
“David Foster Wallace understood the paradox of attempting to write fiction that spoke to posterity and a contemporary audience simultaneously,” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think we all have a Wallace and Gromit inside us. Wallace is the part that has wild plans. Gromit is the sensible side,… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
“Wallace’s philosophy in The Pale King (TPK 546) is that we can ride out waves of boredom and oblivion into bliss and conscious (re)discovery,… — Greg Carlisle Copy Share Image
“The writer is a kind of hawk; he goes round in the skies, constantly looking with his sharp eyes for the character that he… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for whom all… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
David Foster Wallace is a big idol of mine. His writing is so clear that for years I'd read him and think, My God,… — Damian Kulash Copy Share Image
“I too have read his version of the facts. Like you and millions of others. And everyone got the picture, right from the start:… — Kamel Daoud Copy Share Image
“It was then that Brown took his revenge upon the world which, after twenty years of contemptuous and reckless bullying, refused him the tribute… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
“That distinctive singular stamp of himself is one of the main reasons readers come to love an author. The way you can just tell, often within a couple paragraphs, that something is by Dickens, or Chekhov, or Woolf, or Salinger, or Coetzee, or Ozick. The quality’s almost impossible to describe or account for straight out — it mostly presents as… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
There is a limit to political and public tolerance for sacrifice on behalf of wildlife. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I have done some overseas hunting, including in New Zealand and with Amerindians in the jungles of South America. In those cases, I was… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Deer won't trust their eyes, and they won't trust their ears, but they'll always trust their sense of smell. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I got an MFA in creative non-fiction writing at the University of Montana. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I trapped for 10 years, selling the hides and everything. Muskrats, raccoons, coyote, mink, beaver, otter, fox. When I figured out you couldn't make… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I was born with this wanderlust to move, constantly, as far as I could. It's more than I have a very hard time holding… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Microthreats are hardly confined to the wilderness. From the common cold to the Ebola virus, various nasties could be waiting to pounce on you… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
If you strip away someone's connection to the landscape, you risk losing their support as well. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
My first two kids were born in New York City, but there is a lot of exploration to be done just learning the natural… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Getting published was like God stamping you 'acceptable,' and all of a sudden you can start writing for other places. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
If I could be attacked by a grizzly and not be killed, or maimed in a way that made women afraid of me, I'd… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people,… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway. Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Religion is like wax. How anyone deals with it is decisive for how it will look like.” — Ben Midland Copy Share Image
“Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith's… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“WHEN THE ALMIGHTY HAS PREDESTINED YOU, THERE IS NOONE IN THIS PHYSICAL LIFE THAT CAN BLOCK YOUR BLESSINGS…” — Muffin Copy Share Image
“From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.” ~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
