Any Quote by Tracy K. Smith Download Open image “I feel like it's a gift for any writer to be recognized like this.” — Tracy K. Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Any Feel Gift I feel I feel like Like Recognized Writer Writing
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.” — Hemingway, Ernest Copy Share Image
“The most profound, life-altering gift you can offer the Indie writer you love is to TELL as MANY avid readers as you are able.” — R.S. Guthrie Copy Share Image
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us,… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to construct our… — Alexis De Veaux Copy Share Image
I think it's great when writers get recognition; it doesn't happen very often. I just don't want that writer to be me. Let it… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God,… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“So much we once coveted. So much That would have saved us, but lived, Instead, its own quick span, returning To uselessness with the… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“sometimes, what i see is a library in a rural community. all the tall shelves in the big open room. and the pencils in… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part of my life. — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
I feel like the older I get, the truer it feels that I'm only going have an investment in a poem if it allows… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
One of poetry's great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music, and image - things we recognize and respond to even before we… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“we like to think of it as parallel to what we know only bigger. one man against the authorities. or one man against a… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggle and empathize and doubt and believe. The… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
I know my curiosity as a writer and as a person makes me really interested in moving to parts of the country that I… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit. — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those… — Marie Avgeropoulos Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program. — Aaron Schock Copy Share Image
Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them;… — Tom Wlaschiha Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
