Nell Freudenberger Quotes

I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.

Nell Freudenberger

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• Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Friendship

• Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Wisdom
  • Hip Hop

• Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Future
  • Past

• With the release of her fourth album, 'Red,' in 2012 and a handful of highly publicized romances, Taylor was criticized by the press and other entertainers for such sinful acts as dating people and writing songs about it, gaining a reputation as boy-crazy and love-ridden.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Crazy

• I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Style

• It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Lost

• There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Remember
  • Death

• Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • You
  • Now

• I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Success
  • Team
  • Practice

• Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.

  

  Zendaya
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Practice

• You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Time
  • Writing
  • May

• I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Problems

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I'm concerned, love is absolutely everything.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Love Is

• I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Career

• I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Remember
  • Picture
  • Window

• When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Work
  • Small
  • Single

• I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do. It's just a different thing. And it sort of steers my writing in some ways.

  

  Amy Ray
  • Different
  • Writing

• You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Up

• I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.

  

  Jose Gonzalez
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Couple

• Sonic Youth played one show before we even had a drummer. It was just me, Kim, and Thurston. The lights slowly went down, and the set was just 30 minutes of feedback.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Show
  • Played
  • Drummer

• We are beginning to see the entire universe as a holographically interlinked network of energy and information, organically whole and self referential at all scales of its existence. We, and all things in the universe, are non-locally connected with each other and with all other things in ways that are unfettered by the hitherto known limitations of space and time.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Energy
  • Universe
  • Information

• I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.

  

  Nell Freudenberger
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Practice