A Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Quote Topics

Adds Away Block Building Chips Clay Keep Kind Kinds Marble Novels Piling Starts Then Two Way Write

Quote Author

Jonathan Safran Foer
American - Novelist
Born: February 21, 1977

In harvesting of evil deeds, the human race is busy; and doing so is to taste the pangs of Hell . . . The piling up of wealth is the piling up of others' property; what one thus storeth formeth but provisions for one's enemies... I wash off human scandal by devotion true; and by my zeal, I satisfy the Deities. By compassion, I subdue the demons; all blame I scatter to the wind, and upward turn my face.

Milarepa

I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.

Barbara Hepworth

The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.

H. L. Mencken

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer of my more or less good works mad. But always there is present a feeling of unexplained relations of events that I note, and it is this far-away, haunting, or often taunting, awareness, or suspicion, that keeps me piling on.

Charles Fort

For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

Horace

I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.

Paul McCartney

Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that still surround this institution indicate that marriage has evolved without casting away its earlier purposes or assumptions. It's like we just keep building on this thing, piling new advancements on the old model.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Martin H. Fischer

Make your face not look like your face by piling on like the heaviest makeup you can find and do it with some kind of brush that won't judge you.

Jenna Marbles

Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

Ronald Reagan

As the pace of technology increases, the amount of toxic electronic waste is piling up at home and abroad.

Gene Green

Yeah, I think everybody goes through periods, especially in college, where the homework is really piling up and then you have several more weeks of school left and you think that you'll never be able to get through all the homework problems that you have to do or read all the books or write all the papers that you have to write.

Shannon Walker

A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.

Thomas Moore

Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!

Joni Mitchell

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

Henry James

I build a book the way coral reefs are built: millions of little calcareous skeletons piling up one atop another, though in my case the skeletons are drafts.

Dean Koontz

A Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors