I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself. -
Diane Arbus
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness. -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. -
Joseph Addison
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. -
Helen Keller
I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardness in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. -
Ernest Hemingway
