People Quote by Maggie Nelson Download Open image “It's a lot easier to write about people when you're not living with them!” — Maggie Nelson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare People Writing
Honestly, people can write anything they want about me and I could care less, but once you start writing stuff about my family, my… — Patrick Reed Copy Share Image
It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships,… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
It's easy to write when you've nothing to write about (That is, when you are young). — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I write about my experiences, so a lot of times, I do write about people. — India Arie Copy Share Image
I don't think I necessarily am prepared to write about anybody else's life but mine. — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal. — Angela Alioto Copy Share Image
Writing for other people is easier than writing for myself - it's not as personal. — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak. — Sabrina Carpenter Copy Share Image
“When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.” — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and they're unarticulated,… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“It is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language's assertive nature 'adding to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty, as if… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“I can remember a time when I took Henry James's advice--'try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!'--deeply to heart.… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“But “knowing the truth” does not come with redemption as a guarantee, nor does a feeling of redemption guarantee an end to a cycle… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Girls are cruelest to themselves,” observes Anne Carson in “The Glass Essay,” her brilliant long poem about the ravages of female anger, loneliness, grief,… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“On one hand, the Aristotelian, perhaps evolutionary need to put everything into categories– predators, twilight, edible – on the other, the need to pay homage… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Do not, however, make the mistake of thinking that all desire is yearning.” — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Psychology forces everything we call love into the pathological or the delusional or the biologically explicable, that if that I was feeling wasn't love… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“I edit myself into a boldness that is neither native or foreign to me. At times I grow tired of this approach, and all… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage 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 I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean 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
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
