Writing quotes

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What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

- Jacques Derrida

Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.

- Jacques Derrida

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

- Jacques Derrida

I speak only one language, and it is not my own.

- Jacques Derrida

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

- Jacques Derrida

If things were simple, word would have gotten around.

- Jacques Derrida

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care.

- Ellen Goodman

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.

- Ellen Goodman

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.

- Ellen Goodman

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

- Ellen Goodman

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

- Ellen Goodman

It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world.

- Ellen Goodman

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

- Emily Dickinson

Fortune befriends the bold.

- Emily Dickinson

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

- Horace

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

- Bret Michaels

I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year.

- Michael Shanks

I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another.

- Trevor Rabin

I've always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing.

- Richard Donner

All the nice things about Suzanne are me. All the things that aren't nice, that was just the writing.

- Delta Burke

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

- John Le Carre

Vigorous writing is concise.

- William Strunk, Jr.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

- Lord Acton

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

- Leo Ornstein

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

- Robert Benchley

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

- Manuel Puig

Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies.

- Matthew McGrory

Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we'll see whatever happens with that.

- Ethan Suplee

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

- Raymond Chandler

When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day.

- Chuck Klosterman