Arms Quote by Dorothea Brande Download Open image “Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.” — Dorothea Brande ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arms Conscious mind Consciousness Mind Psychology Unconscious Unconscious mind Writing
When I'm having trouble I write by hand. There is some connection between the mind and the fingers that draws out words. — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Writing is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. It always feels good when you finish. — Ray Guy Copy Share Image
Part of being a writer is just getting it in your bones, getting the muscle memory down, just doing it. — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious. — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak. — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
So much of writing is like walking down a dark hallway with your arms out in front of you. You bump into a lot… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer. Like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious. To be fully conscious… — Carolyn Chute Copy Share Image
Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
“My own experience has been that there is no field where one who is in earnest about learning to do good work can make… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility. — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
“I suspect that every teacher hears the same complaints, but that, being seldom a practicing author, he tends to dismiss them as out of… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
“All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.” — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover,… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
I don't wear a watch because I want my arms to weigh the same. So if somebody asks me what time it is, I… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Are we fighting?" I asked Morelli. "No. Were discussing." "Are you sure?" "Am I yelling?" Morelli asked. "Is my face purple? Are the cords… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
A home isn't just a roof over our heads. A home is a place where we feel loved and where we love others. It's… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms. — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
It's been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven't come down. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
