On-writing Quote by Truman Capote Download Open image ““Never pump the well dry; always leave a bucket there.”” — Truman Capote ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare On-writing
“ I had expected the well to be full for some reason. Not that it had ever been before. I kept looking for signs… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
“If somebody pushed you down a well, I’d rush over and toss you a bucket, because I’m fucking thirsty.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Jump the well, and find the Dry. Means loss your self or prove your self.” — Abbas Naqvi Copy Share Image
“Do not settle for a drop in the bucket and kick the bucket;there is more to life.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
“I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“You can beat your brains out for her, and she’ll hand you horseshit on a platter.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
There is really no practical help that one can offer; it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own convictions, or working with one's… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“...Narcissus was so egotist...he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the beautiful comrade, the only… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Is it - I'm not certain - possible to love someone if your first interest is the use you can make of him? Doesn't… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“…she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.” — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.” — Hemingway, Ernest Copy Share Image
“Stories. Character. Dialouge. Entire worlds created on the page. Worlds that could sweep you away or frighten you, make you laugh or cry. Worlds… — Jamie Michaels Copy Share Image
“I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture… — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
“In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“You have to read widely, constantly refining (and redefining) your own work as you do so. It’s hard for me to believe that people… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think they should… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
