Writing Quote by David Carr Download Open image ““It wasn't that I wanted to be a writer; I just didn't want to be stupid.”” — David Carr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.” — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
“I think... the most brilliant thing about being a writer,is that if you don't like the way the world is, you can create your… — Maegan Cook Copy Share Image
“I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.” — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
“Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“The people I've known who wanted to become writers, knowing what it meant, did become writers.” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever recommended or even desired that I be a novelist - in fact, some tried to stop me. I had the idea to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Why does everyone want to be a writer? It is because every person wants to feel that they have something of value to say.” — Margie B. Klein Copy Share Image
“This is the point where the knowing, irony-infused author laughs along with his readers about his time among the aphorisms, how he was once… — David Carr Copy Share Image
“The trick of enjoying New York is not to be so busy grinding your way to the center of the earth that you fail… — David Carr Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they… — David Carr Copy Share Image
“As I sit today, I am a genuine, often pleasant person. I am able to imitate a human being for long spurts of time,… — David Carr Copy Share Image
We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is… — David Carr Copy Share Image
“We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.” — David Carr Copy Share Image
“To the extent I am good at anything other than falling down, it is getting back up, at overcoming low expectations—many of them my… — David Carr Copy Share Image
“But I've seen enough to know that we all carry a measure of guilt and innocence among us.” — David Carr Copy Share Image
“[C]ivilians are equally bewildering to the addict. I've watched people drink a glass and a half of wine and push away the rest. What… — David Carr Copy Share Image
“No one is going to give a damn about your résumé; they want to see what you have made with your own little fingers.” — David Carr 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
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