Writing Quotes
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I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since.
Seth Godin
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It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.
Willa Cather
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Speaking and writing English perfectly should not be a privilege. To those who try to politicize this matter, I tell them now, do not mess with the future of our children.
Luis Fortuno
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Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
William Howard Taft
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I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, and writing is one aspect of it; communicating a narrative, cooking online is one aspect of it; solving the food chasm that we have in Harlem and finding a farmers market is another one, and all of them are equally exciting for me.
Marcus Samuelsson
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I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.
Heather O'Reilly
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I began writing with a Michael Buble mentality. I think he's fantastic, and it's the perfect music for any date night, ever.
Joe Jonas
Jonas Brothers
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If you're an actor, if you're not writing as well, or you're not going to improv classes, there are long spurts where you're not physically in production - unless you're Channing Tatum at this moment right now - where you need to be doing something.
Bret Harrison
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There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand, no poet that I know of who writes in English in the United States is anything but a humanist. So all poets, including myself, seem to be under that umbrella. We just don't have Rush Limbaugh poets, Ann Coulter poets.
David Biespiel
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There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.
David Mitchell
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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
Ernest Hemingway
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You can be whoever you want to be when you are writing songs.
Ruston Kelly
