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Writing Quotes by Gail Collins
- Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not…
- Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine…
- The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was…
- When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen.…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold