Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.
Quotes to Explore
-
I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
-
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
-
My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
-
I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
-
Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
-
My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
-
I write to escape; to escape poverty.
-
'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
-
I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
-
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
-
If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately, I can't be that removed from technology.
-
To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
-
When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
-
There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
-
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
-
At least I can write.
-
Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.
-
I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.
-
Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
-
Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression that he's drawing. But when I would write a story - I know it's going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile - I would, in a way, start living it.
-
I believe that, for those who love to write, time spent writing is never wasted. And then isn't it from book to book that we approach the book that we really want to write?
-
If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.
-
The engine of growth is also the engine of inequality.
-
Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.
