Writing process Quote by Seamus Heaney Download Open image ““Don’t have the veins bulging in your biro.”” — Seamus Heaney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing process
“Fine, yeah, sure, take as many fucking veins as you want. But whether you turn yourself into Frank Langella or not, I’m only clearing… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“May as well have ox blood running through those veins,” I added, “You’re as stubborn as one.” — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
“I try to grasp the colour of my blood and all I feel is life slipping through the colourless veins.” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
When you see the veins popping out of my neck, that's an exclamation point. — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
“I've developed contours for his elbows and knees and bum, and nobody else quite fits into me in quite the same way” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of the sturdiest… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which the poem… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
My writing process is very feedback-based. When I do stand-up, I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting,… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we don't know where we are going until we get there.” — Jacqueline Simon Gunn Copy Share Image
If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more… — Taylor Dayne Copy Share Image
“The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.” — Stephanie Lennox Copy Share Image
In a lot of senses, things are definitely changing in my life, and with what's going on around me. But I still feel like… — Angel Olsen Copy Share Image
But for any writer worthy of the name there are moments during the writing process when the rest of the planet might as well… — Maria Lenhart Copy Share Image
“I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you. — Charles Ghigna Copy Share Image
“The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“I wrote the last sentence of The Patron Saint of Liars in early April and stumbled out of my apartment and into the beautiful… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
