Made Quote by James Arthur Download Open image “Memorizing the work of others definitely made me a better writer.” — James Arthur ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Made Memorizing Writing
I think it made me all that much stronger of a writer when you have to teach yourself how to say words from scratch. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
And the writers are good in that it's easy to memorize, and good writing has an innate rhythm to it. And I've always felt… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I do increasingly feel like becoming a better writer is about trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over and over… — Mike Young Copy Share Image
I fortunately have a good memor, and that helps a lot in the way I write. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down. — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
Me and my mum didn't see eye-to-eye for a lot of years, and I've never really felt connected with my dad, because he wasn't… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
I'm a mix; I'm sure some of my Canadian friends find me very American, both in person and on the page. — James Arthur Copy Share Image
I often write from memory by walking around and talking to myself. Even when I'm working at a computer I write out loud, so… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
I'd like to think that maybe the average person is rational, and they realise that I'm not this crazy monster that, at times, I've… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
It can feel like your whole world is caving in on you, and if you don't speak about it, it gets worse. You have… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
If art doesn't require an audience, can an intimate conversation be a work of art? Can a thought be a work of art? Maybe.… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
And treating poetry as a performing art emphasizes its ephemerality. A printed poem can be endlessly reprinted, photocopied, scanned, uploaded, cut and pasted -… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own frame of reference, and depending on… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
People were telling me it was refreshing I was real because previous 'X Factor' winners were too afraid to say anything. I decided to… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
I believe strongly in what John Keats called negative capability: the trait or practice that allows a poet to remain in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts,… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
I made $225.81 a week as an accountant, and I went to $400 a week as a stand-up. I was up to $800 a… — John Pinette Copy Share Image
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When… — Natalie Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image