Some writers such as John Cheever and Raymond Carver seem to draw artistic energy from analyzing the realm of their own experiences - their social circles and memories and mores. I'm one of those who draw creative energy from the opposite.


Amor Towles

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
HAYAO MIYAZAKI
John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first...
JONATHAN DEE
Your family typically is where you draw your energy from and you can't forget that.
ERIC SCHAEFER
Some people live for the sake of their partners and derive their strength and energy from them
SUNDAY ADELAJA
If I'm performing with a DJ, it's all on me to draw the energy. I like the camaraderie of a ...
TALIB KWELI
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy ...
DENIS WAITLEY
If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE
Living life as normally as possible gives you a richer well of experiences to draw from.
TARA LYNNE BARR
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw fr...
BLAISE PASCAL
Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write l...
ITALO CALVINO
As the world's 'most dynamic' cities seek to manage their own urban growth, American sta...
ROBERT HORMATS
There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People w...
MAGNUS SCHEVING
Inevitably, most readers come to John Cheever's 'Journals' via his fiction. Whatever val...
GEOFF DYER
I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. The...
AMANDA HOCKING
I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginati...
VINNY GUADAGNINO
I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different playe...
CHRISTOPHER MELONI
I thank God that I'm a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and ...
SHAKIRA
However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from...
WALLY LAMB
However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences-and I stray pretty far from m...
WALLY LAMB
I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers w...
SAM SHEPARD
I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories...
JIM COLE
I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't d...
CHUCK CLOSE
I'm not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don't h...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK
I'm sure we could draw on the experiences of Kennebunkport and try to learn from what they might've ...
BRIAN BLACK
Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezue...
GARY MILLER
If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the work...
XENOPHANES
Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul...
BRIAN KEENE
The energy draw - both incoming power and outgoing heat - of these new blade server technologies is ...
RUSSELL SENESAC
I am just one of the overwhelming majority of Americans who is responsible and hard-working and at o...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discove...
MARIE CURIE
I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discove...
MARIE CURIE
Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that emplo...
PANKAJ MISHRA
Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, o...
F. SIONIL JOSE
Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they own their bodies -- thos...
C.S. LEWIS
Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies -- ...
C.S. LEWIS
But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You try to cherish th...
MATT RUFF
Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic wo...
LAURIE HELGOE
I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even ...
MELVYN BRAGG
Nine-tenths of all artistic creation derives its basic energy from the engine of repression and subl...
JOHN FOWLES
When you're working at the forefront of creative design, you have to borrow from history. The trick ...
GARY GIBSON
Our head is designed to broaden our capability of analyzing facts, events and draw the right conclus...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. ...
MICHIO KAKU
But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work t...
XENOPHANES
I wish I could see you some day,
Just for a moment, just see you,

I wish I could h...
RATISH EDWARDS
We want this center to bring together the people who devise new ways to save energy, those who finan...
ANDREW HARGADON
I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.
RACHEL CORRIE
For their drink, they draw a liquor from barley or other grain; and ferment the same, so as to make ...
GERMANICUS
I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
SAM WYLY
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use t...
ANTHONY BURGESS
When love first happens, the individuals are giving each other energy unconsciously and both people ...
JAMES REDFIELD
Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
JACK PRELUTSKY
The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated poi...
DENISE SHEKERJIAN
The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated poi...
DENISE SHEKERJIAN
The division in RTP is really the heart and soul of this announcement in terms of the creative energ...
DOUG BALOG
The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in...
BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON
If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent ...
BILL NYE
I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations mo...
REID HOFFMAN
We might meet with some leaders of student organizations such as fraternities and ask them from thei...
PETER SALOVEY
I continue to be amazed at their honest, probing questions and their extreme courage in facing the n...
LEE WOODRUFF
Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from the...
MAX ERNST
Draw the attention of those who do things out of spite, to something else, away from what you wish t...
NABIL N. JAMAL
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows ...
JOHN MUIR
I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.
LORDE
Distributed energy production means you can use local resources ? farmers can produce all the energy...
GORAN JOVANOVIC
Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.
TERESA NIELSEN HAYDEN
In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watc...
DON AMECHE
God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and u...
YEHUDA BERG
One of the things that's always amazed me about people who attack me, saying I'm opposed to ...
CORY GARDNER
We definitely draw off our defense, and when we play good team defense we get energy.
CAITLIN SHAW
In general, writers who talk to their colleagues and neighbors constantly about their own writing se...
KEN LIU
When I'm drawing, I'm drawing with the light, being completely open and creative. I can'...
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN
The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected...
RAY STANNARD BAKER
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their...
ANTHONY BURGESS
Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I...
RAY BRADBURY
If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst....
SUN TZU
Imagine if there were no Social Security COLA and today's 47 million Social Security beneficiaries h...
WILLIAM NOVELLI
Rise of Science Denialism

The problem is, in a world where some people (even in the USA, ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
The last chapter in 'Alice in Worcestershire' is called 'Writing the book'.
I started to write ...
ESKAY TEEL
This is all about producing energy in such a way that it liberates people. Most people think large-s...
GORAN JOVANOVIC
Joanne is so good at establishing relationships and cultivating those. That is so important in recru...
JODY BENNER
Hearing from the writers is very useful to apprentice writers. They gain inspiration and learn more ...
ANNA MONARDO
In my own case, I'm an artist, and I'm really interested in expanding the vocabulary of huma...
GOLAN LEVIN
Art is for the elite because it has a very high price-point of entry. And when one is in that social...
MOLLY CRABAPPLE
Without access to adequate energy services, the majority of Africans would continue to suffer from d...
JOSHUA OFEDIE
I come from a long line of saloon keepers and proselytizers, and I draw from both sides.
JON HUNTSMAN, JR.
The good news is that the current energy prices are underestimated and utility charges such as water...
LI MINGLIANG
Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from th...
KATE BRAVERMAN
It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on wri...
KATE BERNHEIMER
Some customers have nearly doubled their energy costs. For those customers, demand response programs...
JEFF SIEGEL
Making art requires a degree of intentionality. All works of art require a contemplative individual ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy repl...
STEPHEN COVEY
I've learned 90 percent of what I know from watching and listening to actors. A good leading act...
FINN WITTROCK
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly propo...
EZRA POUND
I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try ...
SPIKE LEE
Considering the greater amounts of energy which can be collected and stored in suitable experimental...
KARL FERDINAND BRAUN
There is in the soul a desire for not thinking.
For being still. Coupled with this
a desir...
RAYMOND CARVER
I can't draw. I'm good on the yo-yo, but I don't draw.
ALEX TURNER

More Amor Towles

For it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born i...
AMOR TOWLES
There are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.
AMOR TOWLES
As a youth, I always did a good deal of reading in the summer months, having suffered since birth fr...
AMOR TOWLES
In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's swee...
AMOR TOWLES
By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, tha...
AMOR TOWLES
I prefer to put myself in an environment that's further afield and look through the eyes of some...
AMOR TOWLES
Whichever wine was within, it was decidedly not identical to its neighbors. On the contrary, the con...
AMOR TOWLES
Yes, thought the Count, the world does spin. In fact, it spins on its axis even as it revolves aroun...
AMOR TOWLES
I’ll tell you what is convenient,” he said after a moment. “To sleep until noon and have someo...
AMOR TOWLES
It is a well-known fact that of all the species on earth Homo sapiens is among the most adaptable. S...
AMOR TOWLES
For what matters in life is not whether we receive a round of applause; what matters is whether we h...
AMOR TOWLES
For as it turns out, one can revisit the past quite pleasantly, as long as one does so expecting nea...
AMOR TOWLES
For his part, the Count had opted for the life of the purposefully unrushed. Not only was he disincl...
AMOR TOWLES
He had said that our lives are steered by uncertainties, many of which are disruptive or even daunti...
AMOR TOWLES
if a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.
AMOR TOWLES
After all, what can a first impression tell us about someone we’ve just met for a minute in the lo...
AMOR TOWLES
Russia was the last to leave the 19th century and the most rapid to enter the mandates of the 20th c...
AMOR TOWLES
All the historical elements should feel organic to the story but not hammered down to serve a purpos...
AMOR TOWLES
Growing up, I didn't come from a musical family. Neither of my parents played an instrument, san...
AMOR TOWLES
To what end, he wondered, had the Divine created the stars in heaven to fill a man with feelings of ...
AMOR TOWLES
I make extensive outlines before I write a book. I usually know what will happen. I know the charact...
AMOR TOWLES
When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a c...
AMOR TOWLES
For pomp is a tenacious force. And a wily one too.
How humbly it bows its head as the emperor ...
AMOR TOWLES
In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty gl...
AMOR TOWLES
One restaurant I visit without fail, whenever I'm in the Bay Area, is the Boulevard at 1 Mission...
AMOR TOWLES
It is a bit of a cliche to characterize life as a rambling journey on which we can alter our course ...
AMOR TOWLES
I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give p...
AMOR TOWLES
The romantic interplay that we were having wasn't the real game--it was a modified version of the ga...
AMOR TOWLES
If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, I’d have been shooting t...
AMOR TOWLES
After meeting someone by chance and throwing off a few sparks, can there be any substance to the fee...
AMOR TOWLES
When a mother loses a daughter, she grieves over the future that her daughter will never have, but s...
AMOR TOWLES
I'm willing to be under anything...as long as it isn't somebody's thumb.
AMOR TOWLES
What was your favorite day of the year? The summer solstice. June twenty-first. The longest day of t...
AMOR TOWLES
I told him I'd always found the description a little too long on adjectives and a little too short o...
AMOR TOWLES
Because when some incident sheds a favorable light on an old and absent friend, that's about as good...
AMOR TOWLES
If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [...] The upcoming one.
AMOR TOWLES
For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.
AMOR TOWLES
For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wo...
AMOR TOWLES
Anyone who has ridden the subway twice a day to earn their bread knows how it goes: When you board, ...
AMOR TOWLES
I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.
AMOR TOWLES
Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.
AMOR TOWLES
Uncompromising purpose and the search for eternal truth have an unquestionable sex appeal for the yo...
AMOR TOWLES
Really. Is there anything nice to be said about other people's vacations?
AMOR TOWLES
—I probably shouldn’t tell you this, I said.
—Kay-Kay, those are my six favorite words in...
AMOR TOWLES
I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens n...
AMOR TOWLES
As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion - whether they're triggered by ange...
AMOR TOWLES
Whatever setbacks he had faced in his life, he said, however daunting or dispiriting the unfolding o...
AMOR TOWLES
Right from the first, I could see a calmness in you - that sort of inner tranquility that they write...
AMOR TOWLES
That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.
AMOR TOWLES
Slurring is the cursive of speech...
AMOR TOWLES
As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion....if the next thing you're going t...
AMOR TOWLES
If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss ab...
AMOR TOWLES
...be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it ...
AMOR TOWLES
It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conv...
AMOR TOWLES
In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred i...
AMOR TOWLES
As both a student of history and a man devoted to living in the present, I admit that I do not spend...
AMOR TOWLES
As awful as the crimes of Stalinism were, the vast majority of the Russian population was trying to ...
AMOR TOWLES
The only difference between everybody and nobody is all the shoes.
AMOR TOWLES
Harry Potter's publishing house has waited until the end of the day to create maximum expectation. T...
MARIA AMOR CALLEJA
dont be too confident when someone tells you they love you, the real question is UNTIL WHEN? becoz j...
NIESA AMOR IBARRA
There's nothing quite like Harry Potter in publishing. It's No. 1. Apart from that, it is a true soc...
MARIA AMOR CALLEJA