M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.”
“My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.”
“My writing process is very feedback based - I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting... and then rewrite, and rewrite, and rewrite. Chris Gethard and I have been on the road a lot together. When we get on the bus at night, we talk about the jokes that didn't work and the joke possibilities that could work. I think this is a little different from other writers.”
“My writing process is very feedback-based. When I do stand-up, I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting, and then rewrite, rewrite and rewrite.”
“My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.”
Source: The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel
“My writing process isn't a very organized thing. The actual writing part is a tiny part of my life. I often write in public. I bring my laptop or write freehand in notebooks. Then, I'll read through them while I exercise or walk the dog. The very last thing I do is the sitting alone at the computer part.”
“My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.”
Source: Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction
“My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I put perfume here on the insides of my soles, I paint my left testicle red, and I write.”
“My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail”
“My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.”
“My writing time had been my personal oasis. A small respite each night, a private space to muse and vent. It was a restorative act, not a performative one.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an area of suspension as in a hanging nest that is almost entirely encapsulated.”
Source: Women, Animals & Vegetables: Essays & Stories
“My writing tools were my most precious belongings. My best quill pen was made from a raven’s feather . . . I was often so poor that I could not pay my mantua-maker, but I always invested in the best ink and parchment. I smoothed it with pumice stone till it was as white and fine as my own skin, ready to absorb the rapid scratching of my quill”
“My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.”
“My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine.”
“My writing's like a journey. I'll know some of the stops ahead of time, and I'll make some of those stops and some of them I won't. Some will be a moot point by the time I get there. You know every script will have four to six basic scenes that you're going to do. It's all the scenes where your characters really come from.”
“My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.”
Source: Listening in: Broadcasts, Speeches, and Interviews by Elizabeth Bowen
“My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.”
“My writing, such as it is, grows out of my sense of discolation, I mean, dislocation. Having lost my place, I write to find my place, or to find once again that I have lost my place.”
“My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you're not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You're actually discovering in the writing process, you're actually creating knowledge.”
“My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother.”
“My writings are not decoration, but wirings of civilization.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“My writings have inspired reason, invention. My inkwell is a portent of things good or bad, but I have ever been an idol of knowledge. A symbol of truth. What is a god, if not that?”
Source: The Knight and the Moth
“My wyld emotions change through the day. I pause, feel, then choose my way...”
Source: Wyatt In The Wyld: My Wyld Emotions Know
“My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.”
“My yardstick is how somebody treats me.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's
“My yearn for home is broadened
Patriotism expanded
By callings from beyond
So I pack my things
Nothing precious
All things sacred”
“My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.”
“My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all.”
“My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough to fill my soul.”
“My years with Tom had somehow crushed a lot of my self-belief. Although crushed was probably the wrong word. It hadn't been as simple as that or as instant. Tom's campaign of making me feel unworthy, second-rate, was more a gentle but persistent squeeze over the years, so gradual that I hadn't really noticed.”
Source: Sunrise With The Silver Surfers
“My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away.”
“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
“My Yoga practice is number one, straight physical exercises are number two, and when I can do neither, I focus on the breath. Make sure I drink enough water and get enough sleep.”
“My yoga practice was and will always be a spiritual experience. I can honestly say, "Yoga delivered me back to GOD!"”
“My yoga practice, I do it because when I get on my mat, I know I'm going to be transformed. I know that whatever stresses are in my life or whatever worries I have or whatever monkey mind is happening for me, when I get off the mat, I'm going to be transformed.”
“My yoke is easy, and my burden light.”
“My Yoni vibrated. Instantly.
Not because he was gentle.
Because he was clear.”
Source: Fire Woman - In the Temple of Desire: A Sacred Journey through Surrender, Pleasure, and Devotion
“My, you do like to dominate”
Source: Sweet Irish Kiss
“My young friend knew so much more about life than the adults in the room did that day. There is so much freedom to living in the moment. Why do we have to stop moments to snap a picture? Sometimes by doing that, we actually miss the essence of the moment, and we forget to sing.”
Source: Live
“My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse.”
“My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good Göttingen beer! Upon seeing a student staggering down a street.”
“My young friends, ... not all the whirlwinds in life are of your own making. Some come because of the wrong choices of others, and some come just because this is mortality. You are His son or His daughter. He made your spirit strong and capable of being resilient to the whirlwinds of life. The whirlwinds in your youth, like the wind against a young tree, can increase your spiritual strength, preparing you for the years ahead.”
“My young friends, I look forward to you as the real makers of Pakistan, do not be exploited and do not be misled. Create amongst yourselves complete unity and solidarity. Set an example of what youth can do. Your main occupation should be in fairness to yourself, to your parents, in fairness to the State, to devote your attention to your studies. If you fritter away your energies now, you will always regret.”
“My young love said to me,'My brothers won't mind, And my parents won't slight you for your lack of kind.' Then she stepped away from me, and this she did say, 'It will not be long, love, till our wedding day.”
“My young men shall never work, men who work cannot dream; and wisdom comes to us in dreams. You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mothers breast? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. You ask me to dig for stone. Shall I dig under her skin for her bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again. You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like white men. But how dare I cut off my mother's hair.”
“My young men shall never work. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams.”
“My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants you to be... Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon... Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle for less than a temple marriage, and I will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity.”
“My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.”
“My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess I've started a dynasty.”