Writing Quote by Ali Shaw Download Open image ““Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up.”” — Ali Shaw ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Writing is like breathing underwater. It's really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills.” — Alane Adams Copy Share Image
“Writing is a wonderful voyage of discovery. So sit down and write, and see where your mind can take you...” — Sarah Jane Avory Copy Share Image
“Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink.” — Alane Adams Copy Share Image
“I want my writing to be as clear as water I can see through so that what I experienced is told without my being… — John Cage Copy Share Image
“So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probly be… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the writing just comes and we're like, oh yeah. Gotta love when that happens.” — Buffy Andrews Copy Share Image
“One thing I love about writing is that in that moment, I am most completely myself, and yet totally relieved of my self.” — Kathryn Barrison Copy Share Image
“Writing is like running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.” — YKRaikou Copy Share Image
“Writing is a gift. To be good at your gift you need to keep writing.” — Lisa Powell Copy Share Image
“It was the touch that made him realize he loved her. Warmth from her scalp. Grease from her locks. He entwined his hand in… — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
“She guiltily found she didn't miss him as much as she missed company in general.” — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
“A clock ticked somewhere in the darkness. This was the time of night when things seemed unreal, when a thought that could be dismissed… — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
“The sunset like a blacksmith, was beating the sky into glowing red blades.” — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
“It had butterfly wings, like flakes of patterned wax. Under the wings it had a hairy body with tiny horns. Its fur looked very… — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you think too hard about what words you're going to use and how to make your mouth say them.” — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
“She had felt a collision with him and known that she had wanted this her whole life: to crash for just one moment into… — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
“Beeches stood aghast in pools of shed leaves. Silver poplars looked like moonbeams.” — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
“Then there were the negatives. How he missed negatives. They were the actual rays of light, bounced straight off a landscape, an object, a… — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
“He said human beings were like a wind blowing. He said that sometimes we're loud and sometimes we're a whisper, sometimes we're warm and… — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
“the sky was something she’d so often dreamed of while the hoo-ha of the Sunday service carried on around her. There seemed to her… — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
