Lucy Dacus Quotes

I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.

Lucy Dacus

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• The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Me

• Honest communication is a rare thing.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Communication
  • Honest
  • Rare

• I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I love writing songs.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Songs

• The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Death
  • Man
  • Words

• One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Take

• I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Music
  • Money
  • Thought

• Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Pain
  • Baby

• I guess I was just meant to be a secretary who doesn't take shorthand. I'm a lousy typist, too - 33 words a minute.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Words
  • Just
  • Meant To Be

• I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Listening

• My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Women

• I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Smell
  • Grass
  • Summers

• Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • Different
  • Words
  • Learning

• There are no rules to writing a song.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Rules

• When I'm writing, I'm just in it and trying to figure out what seems best.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Best

• 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

• Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Done
  • Art
  • Help

• When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Nature
  • Moral
  • Forest

• It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Sound
  • Evidence
  • Sides

• We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Justice
  • Peaceful

• My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

  

  John Major
  • Mother
  • Father

• O money, money, money. I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, but I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Money
  • Stop
  • Wonder

• I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Communication