Catherine Sanderson Quotes

By writing this, knowing that there was a chance he'd read it, i was up to my old tricks. Was I not sending an open letter hoping for some kind of response, in return?

Catherine Sanderson

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• The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.

  

  Ed Emberley
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Know

• When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Experience

• I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Think

• I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Man

• At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Man

• You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Writing
  • Success

• But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Work
  • Writing

• I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • First

• Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Reading

• It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Moving

• The situation at Buffalo was a rough situation, and I appreciate the opportunity, but going back to Seattle was a better situation, even though I'm not the starter. I've got a chance to get back with some familiar faces, back at a place I'm familiar with.

  

  Tarvaris Jackson
  • Opportunity
  • Chance
  • Better

• I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Language
  • Read
  • Ancient

• Writing makes you feel better, to get it all out.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • Writing
  • You
  • Better

• When I started writing about art, there were no curators.

  

  Waldemar Januszczak
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Started

• The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less.

  

  Neal Brennan
  • Writing
  • Victory
  • Machine

• The government currently has unfunded liabilities surpassing $66 trillion.57 That’s $66 trillion in expected entitlement payouts over the coming decades for which there is no known revenue source.58 If nothing is done to scale back the entitlement state, then, according to a report by nonpartisan financial analyst Mary Meeker, “By 2025, entitlements plus net interest payments will absorb all—yes, all—of” government revenues.59

  

  Yaron Brook
  • Government
  • Payouts

• I realize I lack popular recognition.

  

  Michel Temer
  • Popular
  • Realize
  • Recognition

• I dream of diving in two places where I have not been yet. One is Antarctica, because of its crystal clear waters and amazing fauna, in addition to the ice cathedrals. The other is the Arctic, where I'd like to see the northernmost kelp forests.

  

  Enric Sala
  • Dream
  • Amazing

• When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Practice
  • Thoughts
  • Memories

• By writing this, knowing that there was a chance he'd read it, i was up to my old tricks. Was I not sending an open letter hoping for some kind of response, in return?

  

  Catherine Sanderson
  • Writing
  • Chance
  • Read