Activity Quote by Gail Godwin Download Open image “Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.” — Gail Godwin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activity Getting Ready Ready Thinking Writing
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing - none of that is writing. Writing is writing.… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work. — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Writing is something that's great because you get to write every thought that's on your mind; you take your time. — Kendra Wilkinson Copy Share Image
It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing. — James Salter Copy Share Image
Writing is not what you start. It's not even what you finish. It's what you start, finish, and put out there for the world… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“I contemplated how I was going to get through the rest of the day and felt the onset of a terror I thought I had outgrown. I hated it when these clusters started to form. One unwelcome subject sought out its counterparts—farewells, people leaving and never coming back, ambulances… And then those counterparts attracted similar old hurts and horrors until… — Gail Godwin Copy Share
“People commit thousands of small suicides every day that go unnoticed” — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a very nice self, but you know you can expect no more surprises from it. Whereas, the other kind keep moving, changing... They are fluid. They keep moving forward and making new… — Gail Godwin Copy Share
None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime. — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet. — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew. — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
“Yes, if you believed in words, if you lived by words, you had better be careful which words you say and how you say… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property… But if the productive activity of the multitude can be… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. — Gero Miesenbock Copy Share Image
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
