Ellen Hunnicutt Quotes

Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.

Ellen Hunnicutt

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• I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad
  • Interesting
  • Write

• In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Past
  • Present
  • Write

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Think
  • Like
  • Write

• I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Like
  • Write
  • Diary

• Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • You
  • Justice
  • Role

• I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Think
  • Career
  • Me

• I write to escape; to escape poverty.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Poverty
  • Write
  • Escape

• 'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Man
  • Never
  • Write

• I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Film
  • Enjoy
  • Role

• I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • Write
  • Year
  • Two

• That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Write
  • Crime
  • Conflict

• I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Write

• You write about what you know.

  

  Larry David
  • You
  • Know
  • 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.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Matter
  • Write
  • Problems

• 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.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Write
  • Something
  • Events

• Guess what, I'm the opposite of a role model!

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Model
  • Role
  • Opposite

• I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Attitude

• I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Write
  • Piano
  • Software

• Many artists have not been able to realise their fondest projects. My role is to help them.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Help
  • Role
  • Projects

• Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Family
  • Home
  • Rest

• I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window overlooking the veranda and putting green, listening to the idle chitchat of competitors, authors, wits and philosophers, hasn't exactly been a torturous way to begin each day at the Masters all these years.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Country
  • Day
  • Morning

• Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.

  

  Ellen Hunnicutt
  • Write
  • Role
  • Revision