Gaiety Quote by Dorothea Brande Download Open image “Most writers flourish greatly on a simple, healthy routine with occasional time off for gaiety.” — Dorothea Brande ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gaiety Habits Health Healthy Occasional Routine Simple Time Time off Writing
I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness. — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more. — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
You know, there are those writers who work at writing every day. I'm not one of those guys. I tend to work at varying… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration. — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
One of the great things about the longer you do a character, the more the writers start to understand your kind of character ticks… — Chris Demetral Copy Share Image
In real life, writers tend to be quite boring, but in our books, we're having exciting adventures all the time. — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
“Writers say two things that strike me as nonsense. One is that you must follow an absolute schedule everyday. If you're not writing well,… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.” — Graeme Roberts Copy Share Image
Some writers sit down every day for two or three hours, at least, to write, whether they are in the mood or not. Others… — Robert Hilburn 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
The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Neverland is the way I would like real life to be ... timeless, free, mischievous, filled with gaiety, tenderness, and magic. — Mary Martin Copy Share Image
Gaiety is one of the most important elements I brought to fashion. I brought it through color. — Emilio Pucci Copy Share Image
At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me to betray… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't… — Ronnie Corbett Copy Share Image
I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that. — Aidan Turner Copy Share Image
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds? — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster. — Marion Davies Copy Share Image