a migraine a day
is no way
to write haiku
Tag: write
Quotable 419
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it’s words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.
– Geraldine Brooks
Quotable 416
You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.
– Anne Lindbergh
Quotable 413
Haiku has this rather fantasmagorical property: that we always suppose we ourselves can write such things easily.
– Roland Barthes
Quotable 412
I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.
– Cheryl Strayed
Quotable 404
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
– George Orwell
Quotable 394
One reason I think I don’t get blocked is that I’m not afraid to write bad, early drafts in order to get to the good.
– Deborah Reed
Quotable 391
I had forgotten that trying to write something good before I write anything at all is like refusing to give birth unless you know for sure it is going to be a very good baby.
– Lynda Barry
Quotable 385
I don’t believe in “Write what you know,” but I’m a big believer in “Know what you write.”
– Jim C. Hines
Quotable 376
If you are going to write about a culture not your own, you have a heavy burden to do your research, be respectful and get it right.
– Ellen Oh