Quotes and writing and getting published
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After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.
Lloyd Alexander
I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.
John Sayles
In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.
Marshall McLuhan
Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.
Real Live Preacher
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
George Orwell
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you’re doing, or it comes out flat. You can’t fake your way through this.
Real Live Preacher
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert Heinlein
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard
95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want.
Merle Haggard
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
Mark Strand
A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.
Marcus Garvey
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
After the Field Service, when I was back at Harvard, I was still writing poetry, and I met the poet Theodore Spencer.
John Hawkes
After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected.
Hjalmar Schacht
All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.
Marguerite Young
Also, I thought the writing, on Chicago Hope in particular, was far superior to a lot of the feature-film scripts that I had been getting anyway.
Christine Lahti
Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.
Jesse J. Garrett
Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.
John Milius
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Cyril Connolly
And if you have great writing, it's really easy, but if it's not so great and you have to work a little harder, I could tell where the work needed to be done but comedy is just fun.
Matt LeBlanc
And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.
Sharon Gless
And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.
Matthew Vaughn
