Writing Quotes

When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.

Maureen Dowd
- Thinking
- Trying
- Black
It's often women who are writing leading roles for women. Most of the stuff that comes my way is not actually about women. I'm just asked to be a supporting player in a story about a man, and I, frankly, was not interested in doing that.

Carrie Coon
- Men
- Player
- Stories

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

Alice Notley
- Writing
- Poetry
- To Be
I was planning on writing a detailed review of several books on web security tonight, but the Obama collapse has superseded my best-laid plans. Here’s another open thread for this important topic, as America wrestles with the issue of whether it would be a good idea to elect a President with a 20-year history of associating with people who hate America.

Charles Foster Johnson
- People
- Important
- Book
Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing.

Allison Joseph
- Writing
- Own
- Editing
I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.

Michael McKean
- Writing
- May
- Credit
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?... [N]othing can we call our own, but death... [L]et us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings: - How some have been depos'd, some slain in war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd.

William Shakespeare
- War
- Earth
- Eye
It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the separation creates a confusing ambiguity or patent artificiality, you are entitled to happily go ahead and split!

Richard Lederer