Veins Quotes

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of death and the stroke that hits the vein, the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief, the curse no man can bear. But there is a cure in the house, and not outside it, no, not from others but from them, their bloody strife. We sing to you, dark gods beneath the earth. Now hear, you blissful powers underground -- answer the call, send help. Bless the children, give them triumph now.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.

The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.

I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.

It's in the vein, somewhere in a cross between The Beatles, Cheap Trick, The Stones, Badfinger, you know, but it's not retro at all. But it is very pop.

We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there.

It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.

You get used to working with one choreographer.

You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.

Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed.