#searching

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#bad #beach #blank #change #could

Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways. ↗

— Ma Jian

#burgeoning #dust #hopes #late #new

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#boy #clear #doubting #had #i

It was difficult for me because I was searching for the answer for so long, and the answer was right in front of me. Do what I do best. ↗

— Tommy Hilfiger

#because #best #difficult #front #i

Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#coming #creating #ideas #only #outlining

Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out. ↗

— David Allan Coe

#artistic #done #enough #ever #find

In scoring, I usually start with a sound or group of sounds, searching out what feels right. ↗

— Jim Coleman

#group #i #out #right #scoring

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions. ↗

— Helen Garner

#arrive #book #decisions #felt #how

We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure. ↗

— Jena Malone

#feel #form #foundation #place #safe

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#am #because #complications #dealing #disturbed