"A lot of writing is thinking." — Horton Foote

"A lot of writing is thinking."

— Horton Foote

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10 Quotes by Horton Foote

Horton Foote has 10 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about…
Writing is the thing that props me up.
When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid
You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a…
But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened…
If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen.
I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to…
In New York, there are a lot of plays to see, and I try to see as many as I…
My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was…

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More Writing Quotes

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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop… — Paul Auster
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until… — Paul Auster
I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less… — Paul Auster
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the… — Billie Joe Armstrong
I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but… — Isaac Asimov
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov

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