Contact Quote by Irwin Shaw Download Open image “Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.” — Irwin Shaw ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contact Enjoy Football Hurt Sports Writing
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can't they? Yet they… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
Writing is like any other sort of sport. In order for you to get better at it, you have to exercise the muscle. — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing. — Bill Simmons Copy Share Image
Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice. — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The world," said Pavone, "will swing to the left. The whole world except America. The world will swing, not because people read Karl Marx,… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can't they? Yet they… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
“This time it is not a simple, understandable war, within the same culture. This time it is an assault of the animal world upon… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
“The abuse of alcohol,” Mr. Parrish said in a solemn, preacher-like voice, as he reached for his glass, “is the one thing that puts… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
You should never feel lonely, neglected, fearful, or defeated when you remember that there are the shining ones. They are watching with keen interest… — Flower A. Newhouse Copy Share Image
Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
