Sometimes Quote by Alice Mattison Download Open image “Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.” — Alice Mattison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sometimes Upset Wells Writing
I feel upset when someone writes something which isn't true about me. I cry, sulk, fight with everybody and the next day I'm fine! — Richa Chadha Copy Share Image
If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting. — Carolyn Chute Copy Share Image
I don't tend to write when I'm happy, which I think is pretty obvious. — Aubrie Sellers Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Sometimes people ask, 'Does writing make you happy?' But I think that's beside the point. It makes you agitated, and continually in a state… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Whenever a person writes something, anything, it's usually because they're going through something so strong all they can do is try to put it… — Eugenia Vela Copy Share Image
Sometimes indirect style and varying chronology is great, but quite often I've seen it be just something that gets in the way. It turns… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Every once in a while someone says, 'You can't really learn anything, if you're really a writer then you wouldn't need to do it.'… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“When a man I like touches my arm or my hair, I want to know if he'll touch the center of me, and whatever… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
When I've taught writing to five, six, and seven year olds, it's not very different than talking to an adult writer. They're writers then,… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I find that I get very excited about what my students are up to and that I get to be the hurdle they need… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm in a bad mood, sometimes I'm in a good mood. It's like everyone else. — Tricky Copy Share Image
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
Failures happen. You can't cry over them. You just take it in your stride because you know that you have done your best... Sometimes,… — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
