Quotes about Writing, page 7

I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.

Quote by Carol Shields about writing

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Quote by Jessamyn West about writing

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

Quote by Peter O'Toole about writing

I wish... I wish... To let ourselves be killed again monotonically By the arrows thrown by Cupid. I wish... A drop of scented rain To wash the black past, everythinhg that was once. I wish... Your heart to be a white sheet of...

Quote by Florin Muscalu about writing

When you are writing the most beautiful page in the book of your life, the fate with its eternal irony pours ink over the following pages.

Quote by Veronica Micle about writing

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

Quote by William Sydney Porter about writing

The best job for an author is to be a postman. It has nothing to do with writing, it gets him out in the air, he sees what is going on in his community, he can read everyone’s postcards, and he comes back to his desk refreshed, not weary of words.

Quote by Albert Joseph Guerard about writing