Writing Quote by George Sheehan Download Open image ““Writing, someone said, is turning blood into ink.”” — George Sheehan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“Yet I am not writing with ordinary ink, but with red blood that drips from my heart. All its wounds long scarred over have… — Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“The written word might as well have been my veins, and ink my blood.” — Ronnell D. Porter Copy Share Image
“Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.” — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
“Writing is easy. All you have to do is sit down at the typewriter, cut open a vein, and bleed.” — Red Smith Copy Share Image
“The power of the pen does not reside in the ink but in the character of the person doing the writing.” — Aaron Fruh Copy Share Image
“The runner is coming to know, or will know if he runs enough...that the universe is the smallest divisible unit.” — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“Courage, then, has nothing to do with a single act of bravery. Courage is how one lives, not one specific incident. Just as mortal… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“When I was young, I was afflicted with what my aunt called “convenient deafness.” I still am. I have the ability to tune out… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“The 5-year-old sees that Paradise correctly, not in technology but in the fairy story, in the great myths that control and guide our lives.… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“There were a lot of people in the service,” says Dickey, “who cried when they were discharged because they knew they would have to… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“The trouble with this country,” the late John Berryman once told fellow poet James Dickey, “is that a man can live his entire life… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“Running is just such a monestary-- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.” — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“Disease, then, is one of those bad experiences that turns information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. The bad experiences that make you love… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“If you think that life has passed you by, or, even worse, that you are living someone else’s life, you can still prove the… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“Boredom, like beauty, is in the mind of the beholder. ’There is no such thing as an uninteresting subject,’ said Chesterton. ’The only thing… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“Thomas Merton, another solitary, understood that. The beginning of freedom, he wrote, is not liberation from the body but liberation from the mind. We… — George Sheehan 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
