Indian Writing

I am a drinker with writing problems. - Brendan Behan

That's not writing, that's typing. - Truman Capote

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. - Christina Baldwin

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult. - Leo Tolstoy

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

You can't have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. - American Proverb

How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign? - George Carlin

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. - Robert Frost

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. - Edward Dahlberg

There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. - Booker T Washington

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vegetarian: an old Indian word for "doesn't hunt well." - Paul Harvey

When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen. - Unknown

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. - Francis Bacon

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. - Ernest Hemingway

Are you Indian or Pakistani? I can never tell the difference between you chaps. - Prince Philip

I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy. - Groucho Marx

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. - W Somerset Maugham

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. - Louis L'Amour

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time. - Stephanie Zimbalist

Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces. - Sandra Cisneros

The writing of more than 75 poems in any fiscal year should be punishable by a fine of $500. - Ed Sanders

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain

Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked. - Zebulon Pike

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. - John Updike

As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win. - Kara Walker

Indians are so dedicated to being so cheap for so long, that Indian people actually created the number zero. - Russell Peters

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. - Ernest Hemingway

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. - Gene Fowler

They're picking bananas in Brazil and them Indians down there, they don't care about what you look like. - Archie Bunker

I met a man at a party. He said, "I'm writing a novel." I said, "Oh, really? Neither am I." - Peter Cook

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. - Gene Fowler

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a technical challenge, just to get into it. - Ton Stoppard

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin

My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good. - Amanda Peet

If Aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. - Stephen Hawking

Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford

Think while walking, walk while thinking, and let writing be but the light pause, as the body on a walk rests in contemplation of wide open spaces. - Frederic Gros