Quotes by Writing I think all those years that I spent as a nurse, from the age of seventeen, just allowed me an insight into human emotion at those times of life when it's so important. And to see and witness those times of grief and love and loss and all those things was such a huge privilege, both in my own personal life, but it also, I think, spills over into my writing. I think the one thing that most novelists have is some degree of emotional intelligence, and if you don't have that, then perhaps you might struggle to be a novelist, because that has to come out somewhere. Christie Watson griefstrugglewriting I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums. Christina Aguilera readingwritingart I never want to feel constrained by writing a novel for a specific audience. Christina Baker Kline audiencenovelwriting I have a lot of empathy for women who fit their writing into the crevices of their too-busy lives, as I once did. Christina Baker Kline empathybusywriting I love you," he writes again and again. "I can't bear to live without you. I'm counting the minutes until I see you." The words he uses are the idioms of popular songs and poems in the newspaper. And mine to him are no less cliched. I puzzle over the onionskin, trying to spill my heart onto the page. But I can only come up with the same words, in the same order, and hope the depth of feeling beneath them gives them weight and substance. I love you. I miss you. Be careful. Be safe. Christina Baker Kline love-youwritingsong Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection. Christina Baldwin bridgesreflectionwriting When you choose to write using yourself as the source of the story, you are choosing to confront all the silences in which your story has been protectively wrapped. Your job as a writer is to respectfully, determinedly, free the story from the silences and free yourself from both. Christina Baldwin silencewritingjobs in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience. Christina Baldwin reflecting-uponlive-lifewriting Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. Christina Baldwin diarieswritingteacher The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift. Christina Baldwin creatinglifetimewriting We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story. Christina Baldwin biggerstorieswriting We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in personal introspection. We have enough common psychology under our belts to know that psychology doesn't explain or heal everything and that it isn't the fulfillment of awareness, but its beginning. We are undergoing a shift in paradigms in which we are trying to develop new models for humanness and human responsibility. This is no small task. Our individual lives are placed under increasing pressure to respond adequately to both inner and outer change. Christina Baldwin responsibilitywritingpeople Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked. Christina Baldwin mapsjourneywriting Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories. Christina Baldwin storiesdesirewriting I make make music in my own time, messing around with beats and riffs I write. Always practicing performing in my room most times I probably look like an idiot dancing around haha. Christina Grimmie dancingwritinglooks If Mad Men had taken place in the '90s it would have been just as believable. But the fact is that was the perfect storm and with the fashion and the sets and the writing and the actors it just all made sense and it just was one of those things that you can't explain. Christina Hendricks fashiontakenwriting There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When journalists, policymakers, and legislators address topics such as the wage gap, gender and education, or women's health, they turn to these experts for enlightenment. For the most part, they peddle misinformation, victim politics, and sophistry. They claim that their teachings represent the academic consensus, but that is only because they have excluded all dissenters. Christina Hoff Sommers fashionteachingwriting Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now Christina Milian listening-to-musicwritinginspire I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me. Christina Perri brotherwritingschool It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out. Christina Perri christmaswritingsong«240241242243244245246247248249250»
