Marriage Quote by Gordon Highland Download Open image ““Writing what you know" is about as much fun as having an affair with your spouse.”” — Gordon Highland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Marriage Writing
Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
I hate that rule that says write about what you know, it leads to too many British novels about marriages going slightly wrong. Write… — Jeff Noon Copy Share Image
When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work. — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Don't write what you know. Write what you love. That's what will keep you writing. — Chris Humphreys Copy Share Image
“Writing is like making love. Connecting with another person's mind is the deepest form of penetration.” — Shawn Stern Copy Share Image
“I know I am a writer because until I’m writing I don’t know what I know.” — Wayson Choy Copy Share Image
“Don’t write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your… — Valerie Sherwood Copy Share Image
“Things you can not conveniently do in the presence of your spouses and you do them, it is cheating.” — Lord Uzih Copy Share Image
“My role is insignificant. Sure, there’s diaper detail and fire watch and general fawning, but aside from keeping our noses above the poverty line,… — Gordon Highland Copy Share Image
“Borrowed time and stolen moments are those of which we take the most ownership.” — Gordon Highland Copy Share Image
“Strapped in, this chair conjures sympathetic imagery the eyes could never record. Theater of the mind etched on the skull wall. The collective depression… — gordon highland Copy Share Image
“The definition of success constantly evolves for the truly ambitious.” — Gordon Highland Copy Share Image
“I’ll keep this part short, because no one truly gives a shit about this kind of stuff, and I’m sure you don’t, either. They… — Gordon Highland Copy Share Image
“These things matter. It’s tedious, I know. Any writer worth his weight in pulp would by now have set the hero along a definable… — Gordon Highland Copy Share Image
“Many people talk of the “god-shaped void” in their lives that had been waiting to be filled by faith. Always in born-again hindsight, this… — Gordon Highland Copy Share Image
“Hold the mail, I could swear that was funny. He must draw his powers from the others. A malevolent synergy, like when you multiply… — Gordon Highland Copy Share Image
“Celebrations, for me, have always been where celibacy meets masturbation.” — Gordon Highland Copy Share Image
“Reading without suspicion is more dangerous than blogging without authority.” — Gordon Highland Copy Share Image
Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic. — John Whiting Copy Share Image
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my… — Jane Powell Copy Share Image
Luckily, the bullet that hit my chest never got to me. It was stopped by a silver case I got for my brother's wedding. — James Doohan Copy Share Image
Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thing about hitting kids is, think about if you were doing the same thing to another adult. Hitting your kid is really the… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
“Take an interest in his appearance. Keeping his clothes in order is your job; encouraging him to look his best, and admiring him when… — Ellen Baker Copy Share Image
Females always say, you can't turn a hoe into a house wife, but steady be trying to turn a dog into a faithful man… — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
