Logo
It is not my sentence that I polish, but my thought. I pause until

It is not my sentence that I polish, but my thought. I pause until the drop of light that I need is formed and falls from my pen. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Writing
category

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. – Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades, 1947

Category:
Writing

When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man. РBlaise Pascal, Pens̩es, 1670

Category:
Writing

It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order. – Ann Beattie, Picturing Will, 1989

Category:
Writing

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. – Franz Kafka

Category:
Writing

Random Quotes

When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game. – Fuzzy Zoeller

Category:
Food

I believe its a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is. – Brad Garrett

Category:
Marriage

I dont want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didnt pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country. – Rahm Emanuel

Category:
History

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are. – Tom Hanks

Category:
power