Best shame & writing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Shameless actually good since it gives a kind of freedom. We consider the old, functionless shame destructive. Today, if you have a strong sense of shame you also have a strong desire to overcome it. And that's when you can write.”

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Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.”

Writing Hard Faces Imagination Shame Derision

Author:Eloisa James

“Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.”

Ifs Writing Years Years Ago Shame Seven Sermons Seven Years Methodists

Author:John Wesley

“I write a lot and I will have some originals on the record. I think it is a mistake for an artist like me to think I am a better writer than Cole Porter. I think it is important to realize what my strengths are. I do like to write and I'm not shabby but I don't think I'm the most brilliant writer. I think it would be a shame and sort so egotistical to say I don't need these wonderful writers. These men created works of art and wrote hundreds of beautiful songs. It would be a mistake for me to say at this point in my career that I am so good.”

Thinking Men Needs Writing Art Important Would Be Beautiful Artist Song Realizing Mistake Careers Records Wonderful Shame Originals Brilliant Like Me Works Of Art Egotistical Shabby

Author:Michael Buble

“When I was writing the book, I thought "Who wants to hear another story about some actor who lost his way?" But my story is a little unique in that I realized when I was 14 years old that I was different. I think a lot of gay people use drugs and alcohol to quell that fear and shame - especially people of my age.”

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Author:Leslie Jordan

“The easiest way to separate yourself from the unformed blobby mass of "aspiring" writers is to a) actually write and b) actually finish. That's how easy it is to clamber up the ladder to the second echelon. Write. And finish what you write. That's how you break away from the pack and leave the rest of the sickly herd for the hungry wolves of shame and self-doubt. And for all I know, actual wolves.”

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Author:Chuck Wendig

“So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having.”

Writing Trying Kind Process Shame Writing Process

Author:Morgan Parker

“I think challenges are what any decent writer would be all about. If you actually do find your slide and grease it, shame on you. Me, I get bored very easily. As a writer I get bored even faster than I do in real life. I mean, I like fast cars; I've driven a lot of racecars. You need some stimulation. If I find something that seems too difficult to do, too difficult to research, or beyond your writing abilities, it's a perfect invitation to try it.”

Thinking Writing Trying Mean Real Difficult Challenges Ability Perfect Car Shame Driven Real Life Bored Decent Invitations Grease Fast Car

Author:Dan Simmons

“Sometimes a poem starts because I feel the urge to write about something from which I carry a great deal of shame, and I try to sketch out in writing how I am complicit in whatever dynamic it is I am illuminating. And sometimes it comes later, when I step back and challenge myself - am I being honest here?”

Writing Trying Sometimes Challenges Honest Shame Being Honest

Author:Bao Phi

“So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having. Where I would usually backspace, I stop and say, "You know what? This is important, that I say how I feel and don't sugarcoat it, and don't avoid it." In my experience when I do try to avoid something, it makes its way into the work anyway. To be in front of it and just make friends with it is easier for me.”

Writing Trying Kind Important Shame Writing Process

Author:Morgan Parker

“Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.”

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Author:Marjane Satrapi

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

“The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?”

Men Writing Reason Shame

Book:Essays Critical and Clinical

Source: Essays Critical and Clinical

“Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could have broken out. This delay makes it possible for me to write today, in the same way I used to lie in the scorching sun for a whole day at sixteen, or make love wihout contraceptives at twenty: without thinking about the consequences”

Source: Simple Passion

“Well, it kind of hurts when the kind of words you write And kind of turn themselves into knives And don't mind my nerve you can call it fiction 'Cause I like being submerged in your contradictions, dear 'Cause here we are, here we are Although you were biased, I love your advice Your comebacks they're quick and probably Have to do with your insecurities There's no shame in being crazy depending on how you take these Words they're paraphrasing this relationship we're staging And it's a beautiful mess, yes, it is It's like we're picking up trash in dresses”

“This concept could easily have gone awry. Stories about love tend to go that way sometimes. They wander into the realm of cheese and never return, which I think is a shame, because there is a way to write about romantic love without breaking out the Velveeta.”

Thinking Way Writing Sometimes Stories Gone Return Concepts Shame Wander Realms Romantic Love Cheese

Author:Veronica Roth

“one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others”

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Author:Allen Ginsberg

“There are no accusations with writing, no judgment, no shame, only freedom.”

Writing Judgment Shame Accusation Callie And Kayden

Book:The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden/The Redemption of Callie and Kayden

Source: The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden/The Redemption of Callie and Kayden

“The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.”

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Author:J. P. Donleavy

“There are lots of people who give their all and have that inner glow on. It's a shame that majority of them are under seven years old.”

People Giving Writing Years Shame Majority Seven Seven Years

Author:Esa Saarinen

“After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.”

Writing Use Seems Universe Creating Shame

Author:Terry Brooks

“No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge”

Writing Language Dignity Shame No Fear

Author:Jack Kerouac

“Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the bizarre parade that is Chicago, with all its gloriously odd and wonderful people. This book possesses both the nerve of Nelson Algren and the existential comedy of Albert Camus.”

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Author:Joe Meno

“Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves and we aren't willing to put ourselves in the skin of those characters and women, I think, terrify us. We tend not to write women as human beings. It's cartoons we're making now. And that's a shame.”

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Author:Paul Haggis

“Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.”

Writing America Shame Captains

Author:Mark Millar

“Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to lose something that makes scientists, that makes doers, that makes hard-minded, witty, clever people, and I worry that those people aren't being made these days.”

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Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.”

Writing Reason Shame Topics Qualms African Women

Author:Danai Gurira

“Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. (...) He writes with a flair that puts most journalists to shame and a depth of knowledge that puts most professors to shame.”

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Author:Alan Ryan

“I do choose to write for a living - in addition to writing plays. I no longer write sitcoms, and I no longer feel shame.”

Feels Writing Play Shame Crafts Sitcom

Author:Lisa Loomer

“Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.”

Writing Mean Shame Ira Gershwin

Author:Joni Mitchell

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