Writing Quote by Iris DeMent Download Open image “I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.” — Iris DeMent ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing Written
I see a skill developing of writing about not just feelings that I'm feeling, but things that I deeply care about as well. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
Mostly things that have happened to me, feelings that I've had, but on a couple of occasions I've written about things that have happened… — James Walsh Copy Share Image
I found when I was really little that my instinct was to write before talking to other people about the way that I felt. — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important. — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
Things just kind of stick with me, and writing, for me, is always an investigation into my own feelings about them. I wonder why… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
No matter what situation I'm in, I always feel better writing something in the middle of whatever emotion I'm feeling. So it does help… — Benson Boone Copy Share Image
Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling. — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
I started writing for myself when I didn't know how to understand how I was feeling, and I didn't know how to talk to… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty… — Iris Dement Copy Share Image
Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me. — Iris Dement Copy Share Image
I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be… — Iris DeMent Copy Share Image
This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer… — Iris Dement Copy Share Image
If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with… — Iris DeMent Copy Share Image
Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money. — Iris Dement Copy Share Image
My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar! — Iris Dement Copy Share Image
Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing. — Iris Dement Copy Share Image
I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music. — Iris DeMent Copy Share Image
I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else. — Iris DeMent Copy Share Image
We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage. — Iris DeMent 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
