Quotes of: I-write Keyword

My dirty little secret is I don't drive at all, though I have my license and I renew it every five years. I'm phobic. I keep worrying if I drive, I'll end up killing someone. I hoped that by writing about a car crash, I might understand and heal this...

Caroline Leavitt

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it ...

Tobias Lindholm

I used to write on my resume that I was shorter than I was because I thought it would inhibit my roles, and as soon as I embraced that I am a tall female, I started getting really fantastic roles and really didn't even worry about wearing heels.

Heather Doerksen

I was successful and I enjoyed modeling, but it got to a point where I felt like I had 'been there, done that.' I wanted something that would inspire me and challenge me. I needed something that required more creativity. I started writing and I start...

Julia Voth

There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted to tell story until it was over. But then there came a time where I was like, 'No, I want to understand something through writing this that I might have n...

Joss Whedon

The first record I made when I was 17. Labels merged and plans didn't work out, but plans never work out as planned. But I never stopped making music. I never had a backup plan. I never thought, 'Maybe I should just write, or maybe I should...' I jus...

Ashley Monroe

I walked slowly on, without envying my companions on horseback: for I could sit down upon an inviting spot, climb to the edge of a precipice, or trace a torrent by its sound. I descended at length into the Rheinthal, or Valley of the Rhine; the mount...

Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel

These days, I've been trying to classify my thoughts into two categories: "Things I can change," and "Things I can't." It seems to help me sort through what to really stress about. But there I go again, over-planning and over-organizing my over-think...

Taylor Swift

Henry Miller, Genet, Sade, Bataille are really important writers for me and I love them, but I feel often they don’t love me, you know? I feel I always have to wrap my head around the way the girl is treated in the works, and the way the woman writ...

Kate Zambreno

But real life is not art.

The Green and Burning Tree: On the Writing and Enjoyment of Children's Books

In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.

Peter Davison

It ain't just about writing on some documents, author writes on to the readers' heart and mind.

Master of Stupidity

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

The Last Night of the Earth Poems

not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.

The Last Night of the Earth Poems

He lives the poetry that he cannot write; the others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.

The Poet and The Painter

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

The Writing Life

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

The Writing Life