Writing Quote by Thomas Keneally Download Open image “I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.” — Thomas Keneally ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do. — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me. — William Landay Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never occurred to… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I don't really consider myself a writer, but I am writing so I guess I'm a writer. — Meital Dohan Copy Share Image
In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back. — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“She yawns for men and not with her mouth. She weeps for men and not with her eyes. She drinks men down, she is… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“If Frau Rasch, in the last and fullest days of her husband’s power in Brno, had idly—during a party, say; a musical recital at… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular. — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“He [Rabbi Menasha Levartov] was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“We humbly beg your kind applause,” murmured Mary Brenham, with a creative frown that reminded Ralph of Betsey Alicia and made him sharply aware… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“In the mind of a true snob there are certain limited criteria to denote the value of human existence. Jimmie's criteria were: home, hearth,… — Thomas Keneally 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
