Quotes by Writing The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot. Anne Sexton writingbeautifulsex All I am is the trick of words writing themselves. Anne Sexton trickswriting A woman who writes feels too much. Anne Sexton too-muchwritingfeels When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do. Anne Sexton bornwritinginspirational I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer! Anne Sexton whitewritingthinking Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem. Anne Sexton trickscraftswriting I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves. Anne Sexton perfectwritingthinking I'll Anne Sexton motivationhopewriting I'm an empress. Anne Sexton crazynicewriting Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions. Anne Stevenson mindfeelingswriting I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me. Anne Stevenson usedmeditationwriting If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all. Anne Stuart riskwritingmay Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it. Anne Sullivan Macy writingchildrenthinking For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark. Anne Tyler sleepwritingbook Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room. Anne Tyler acidreadingwriting If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all. Anne Tyler feltliteraturewriting It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from. Anne Tyler familywritingchildren The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning Anne Tyler writingmorningtrying I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing? Anne Tyler motherwritingchildren I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside. Anne Tyler lastswritinglooks«8788899091929394959697»
