Quotes by category:Writing

I don’t write poetry when I wish, I write when I can’t, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.

throat wish writing

Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall.... by Anna Kamienska

Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that.

wall cells writing

It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why did I say this next?'

next writing trying

I have a lot of boyfriends, I want you to write that. Every country I visit, I have a different boyfriend. And I kiss them all.

Anna Kournikova

cute-relationship writing country

The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.

degrees writing men

If I'm feeling confident, then I write confident, happy, or assured music. I can hear some early electronic sketches I did where I'm clearly not confident and everything's a bit mid-range, nothing really pushes through.

range feelings writing

Other friends have said, "I don't understand why you've used this trumpet-style sound rather than a real one when you know you can write for trumpet." But it's most important to get the energy right.

style real writing

I have a rule: before I can throw anything out, I have to write down five possible uses for it. This stretches my mind and keeps it nimble - just like stretching exercises do for my body.

mind exercise writing

My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write. by Anna Quindlen

My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write.

habit writing trying

If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life is pushing strollers up the street, folding T-shirts, the alarm clock going off early and you dropping into bed exhausted every night. That's real life.

real writing night

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

writing book thinking

The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That's how life is most of the time, isn't it? You know where you are and where you hope to wind up. It's the getting there that's challenging.

journey writing discovery

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write, and there are very few of them.

writing book thinking

Not writing at all leads to nothing. by Anna Quindlen

Not writing at all leads to nothing.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

writing people thinking

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had.

wrinkles inspirational-life writing

Writing for UrbanMoms has awarded me a multitude of amazing opportunities. I have traveled to new places; alone and with my family. I have discovered new products, new books, new trends and new restaurants, and been able to share them with my readers. I've met other wonderful writers and many incredible celebrities.

writing opportunity book

At the same time that you've got to open yourself up to the fact that experience is going to teach you year after year, decade after decade. I remember I very badly wanted to write a newspaper column when I was only 21 years old, and I went to my editor and told him that, and he said, "You're a really good writer, but you haven't lived long enough to be qualified to live out loud."

editors writing years

The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write... by Anna Quindlen

The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life.

living-my-life powerful writing

Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.

writing fun book