Thursday Thirteen

Here you go, 13 quotes about writing.

1. I'm just another writer, still trapped within my truth . . . Sometimes When We Touch, Written by Dan Hill and sung by Barry Manilow, among others.

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

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

4. If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.  - Anais Nin

5. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. - Alexander Pope

6. Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing. - Sylvia Plath

7. I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter. - J K Rowling

8. I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.  - Keith Richards

9. The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. - Lee Iacocca

10. It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. - W. H. Auden

11. Writing is the supreme solace. - W. Somerset Maugham

12. Writing is hard work and bad for the health. - E. B. White

13. Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. - Jorge Luis Borges

These came from this website: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/writing_5.html

I have had this song on my mind for two days.



Thursday Thirteen is played by lots of people; there is a list here. I've been playing for a while and this is my 212th time to do a list of 13 on a Thursday.