Misunderstood Quote by Norman MacCaig Download Open image “Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.” — Norman MacCaig ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Misunderstood Writing
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood. — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I'm willing to be misunderstood. I've never had a problem being misunderstood by a portion of people on any particular issue if it makes… — RJD2 Copy Share Image
No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I know that it's common for creative people to feel like they're profoundly misunderstood but for the most part I don't feel like that.… — Liza Johnson Copy Share Image
Me being misunderstood is common, a little too common but it is what it is. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being misunderstood! It's like no matter how you may express what you're feeling, Poeple still won't understand! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Use to hate being misunderstood but finally I realize it's best to be misunderstood than understood. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings...… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Tell me that I misunderstood a joke, but don't tell me that my choice of cravat is wrong. — David Niven Copy Share Image
Teenagers: The most misunderstood people on earth. Treated like children and expected to act like adults. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was so unsuccessful for so long. I was used to the word no. I was used to you're not good enough or not… — Tamar Braxton Copy Share Image
I love Crowley for being an audacious man at certain point in time. I think he's greatly misunderstood. He was a good guy, but… — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience… — Tim Field Copy Share Image
As evangelical Christians we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel is more… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Mental illness People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on your skin like scars forming a map of all the ways… — Emm Roy Copy Share Image
In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood. — Mae West Copy Share Image
To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
