top of page
Quote_1.png
William Collins

"When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry."

Standard 
 Customized
"When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry."

Exlpore more Work quotes

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"To work is to feel alive."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections."

Explore more quotes by William Collins

Quote_1.png
William Collins
"How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!"
Quote_1.png
William Collins
"Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior."
Quote_1.png
William Collins
"Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath."
Quote_1.png
William Collins
"Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead."
Quote_1.png
William Collins
"In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong."
Quote_1.png
William Collins
"I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more."
Quote_1.png
William Collins
"Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing."
Quote_1.png
William Collins
"When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry."
bottom of page