Chelsea Cain Don’t let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort of follow them around through the narrative. I think that these writers are out of their minds. – Chelsea Cain Characters Quotes Create Quotes Follow Quotes Minds Quotes Narrative Quotes Pushy Quotes Sort Quotes Writers Quotes I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with it. I would make completely different choices, do things I wouldn’t have normally, because I had to fill this narrative shape. I love to write just about more than anything, but there are times I have to force myself to sit down and work. I want to play with my daughter or watch a movie with my husband or go outside on the nicest day of the year. But if writing is going to be your job, you have to treat it like a job.
Caitlin Moran I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays. – Caitlin Moran
Andy Dunn The hardest thing in leadership is managing your own psychology, and yet it’s also the least talked about. – Andy Dunn
Miranda Hart I’ve always felt a bit of an outsider. It used to worry me that, in terms of TV, I did not look like ‘the girlfriend’ or ‘the daughter’. That pushed me to write my own stuff, as I thought no one else was going to write me a lead in the sitcom. – Miranda Hart
A R Ammons Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. – A R Ammons
Jana Kramer In Los Angeles there’s, like, this awful image because the girls are so skinny. I don’t think it’s attractive whatsoever, and I also think that it gives a bad image to kids that are in their early teens. It’s not healthy. – Jana Kramer
Eleanor RooseveltGood I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. – Eleanor Roosevelt
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