Quotes about writing
writing butterfly blood
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of blood-relationship of the species. As the laws of nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole world. Henry Walter Bates
writing men names
I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter. Henry Ward Beecher
writing long stories
Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story. Henry Cloud
writing love-is names
Other-Love is writing's first name. Helene Cixous
writing stranger bizarre
I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner. Helena Christensen
writing thinking practice
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other. Charles Caleb Colton
writing first-love should-have
Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss. Charles Dickens
writing trying unendurable
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable. Alan Moore
writing people littles
The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out of my life and then contorts them. Diablo Cody
writing silence sound
I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet. Adriana Trigiani
writing cake literature
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it. Danielle Steel