Arcangela Tarabotti Quotes

When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain which their writing had interrupted, a life devoted to the women's work of needle and distaff.

Arcangela Tarabotti

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Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.

Ville Valo HIM
- Time
- Writing
- Now
Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.

Hailey Gates
- People
- Hand
- Focus
I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

Lana Del Rey
- Life
- Time
- Different
Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world.

Rachel Kushner
- World
- Writing
- Feeling
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

Flannery O'Connor
- Writing
- Experience
- Hair
Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.

Vikas Swarup
- Writing
- Thought
- Yourself