“If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, finding an etiolated Henry James slumped at the bar in a haze of indecision, and shooting him dead.” IfsYoungWalkingFindingsSentencesBarsShootingIndecisionHazeSaloons Author:Adam Haslett
“There are so many different ways to develop a character - physically, mentally, spiritually and all of that - but the research was really beautiful. I love the process of finding characters because, in the beginning, it's really unknown, and then, by the end of it, all of a sudden, you're walking and talking like that character.” WayDifferentEndsCharacterBeautifulProcessTalkingWalkingFindingsResearchDifferent WaysReally Beautiful Author:Abbie Cornish
“I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time - the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.” KnowsFirstsFeelingsHomeRememberMotherOpportunityMillionsDoorsFrontsProudWalkingFindingsFirst TimeExcitedReachingMy SisterRemember WhenThirteenFront DoorsFirst Home Author:Kamala Harris
“Leaps look good in the movies, but in fact, success is mostly about finding a path and walking it one step at a time.” LooksFactsStepsPathWalkingFindingsLeapOne Step At A Time Author:Seth
“Writing a short story is a little like walking into a dark room, finding a light and turning it on. The light is the end of the story.” WritingLittlesEndsStoriesLightDarkRoomsWalkingFindingsShort StoryDark Room Author:Dan Chaon
“Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.” MenTryingDoeFallGrowsMistakeStudyConditionsWalkingFindingsAll ThingsBottomEvery ManInstructionElsewhereCatchingDiscouragingPavementIncessantWrong Direction Author:Thomas Carlyle
“I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land.” MindLooksStillsPastLandBuildingWalkingFindingsReflectionMarkGlassesScarShockedGetting OldGetting OlderFolds Author:Dave Matthews
“Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room light, nothing had been right. Nothing had been as comfortable or felt so good. Just the effort it took to keep your stupid physical body alive, just finding food and cooking it and dishwashing, the keeping warm and bathing and sleeping, the walking and bowel movements and ingrown hairs, it was all getting to be too much work.” PeopleBodyLightFeltBornSleepRoomsEffortToo MuchAliveStupidMovementHairWalkingComfortableFindingsCookingWarmDeliveryPhysical BodyBathingToo Much WorkYour StupidBowel MovementsDelivery Room Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison cafeteria wearing Daisy Duke shorts and a Jane Fonda headband.” KnownWalkingHorrorFindingsPrisonFinding YourselfJaneBoltsDukesDaisiesShortsCafeteriaHeadbands Book:Magical Thinking Source: Magical Thinking