Writing Quote by Monica Wood Download Open image ““There is no such thing as wasted writing.”” — Monica Wood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.” — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“If one think he can live without writing, perhaps he should not write at all.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“If writing doesn't come from the heart, the time spent was a waste” — Dustin Adrian Rhodes Copy Share Image
“We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.” — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
“Writing is a failure. Writing is not only useless, it's spoiled paper.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the most necessary things when you're writing? The waste basket.” — Enkelejd Lamaj Copy Share Image
“So nothing will ever be written down again. Perhaps the act of writing is necessary only when nothing happens.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
“I have always loved books for their reassuring heft, for their promise of new words, for their air of mystery, for their characters who… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
“The packet of fading photos gives it away if you know how to look: always a rundown porch landing and stair rails behind, always… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
“Maybe he, like Mum, believed God had delivered three extra children, one-two-three, as a sign of His plan for this couple's long, long friendship.… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
“But even talented people, sooner or later, cracked their heads against their own personal ceilings.” — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully, through our… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
“I read with a kind of curious terror, learning that words can pin their readers to place, confer permanence on the ethereal, make the… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
“In they went, over the footbridges to mills flourishing on Chisholm land. “To the Rumford Falls Paper Company, which made—?” “Newsprint!” “And the Rumford… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
A well-chosen complication should give you choices. Juggling choices for your characters is what makes writing fun, after all. If you discover that you're… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
It's often hard to determine, especially in early drafts, whether or not a story has a bona fide complication. Remember this: A complication must… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
“The shape of our family has been upended and rearranged, its roof flattened, its gateposts ripped from the earth by God's own brutal hand,… — Monica Wood 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
