![I remember a point in [writing] the story where I said, "This isn't working, I should go and buy something at the supermarket or my wife will kill me." Then I said, "No, I'll go on."](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-remember-a-point-in-writing-the-story-where-i-said-this-isnt-working-i-sh.jpg)
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Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say. Robert Creeley
writing people trying
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you. Richard Paul Evans
writing thinking hands
I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing. Rebecca West
writing known knows
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.
writing editing edited
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. Russell Lynes
writing intelligent honest
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life. Russell Banks
writing people care
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.
writing discipline attention
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.
writing names faces
The God we worship writes his name upon our faces. Roger Babson
wife eating-alone dull
I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone. William Wycherley
wife pounds fats
My wife she's fat. Why, if she lost a few pounds, she'd be perfectly round. Rodney Dangerfield
wife devil purpose
So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God. Warren Jeffs
wife buried my-wife
Buried my wife the other day. Had to, she died. W. C. Fields
wife half capable
She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend. William Penn
wife getting-older care
You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along. Jacob Braude
wife use energy
Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz] Malcolm X
wife pimp stills
Never ask your wife if she still hears from her old pimp. Johnny Carson
wife my-wife died
When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself. Johnny Cash
stories really-romantic heard
But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true. Richelle Mead
stories scene holmes
Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene. Rex Stout
stories details different
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stories able would-be
Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories? Yahoo Serious
stories collaboration love-story
In the end all collaborations are love stories. Twyla Tharp
stories repetition tiresome
History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. William Graham Sumner
stories philosopher theologian
I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller. William Golding
stories want ifs
If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded. William Joyce
stories life-is enough
Everything in life is made up...You make up that you are happy. You make up that you are sad. You make up that you are in love. If you don't make up your own life, who's going to make it up for you? It's bad enough when you die and everybody can make up their own stories about you. —Mr. Hooft Walter Dean Myers