Indian Writing

Vigorous writing is concise. - William Strunk, Jr.

Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

I am a drinker with writing problems. - Brendan Behan

Writing is a struggle against silence. - Carlos Fuentes

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography. - Steven Wright

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

There is creative reading as well as creative writing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything. - Ivana Trump

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

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. - Steven Wright

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit. - Aristippus

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

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it. - Tabitha King

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

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. - Marsha Norman

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure. - Yancy Butler

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

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it. - Anthony Storr

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

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 the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. - Jules Renard

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker. - Robin Williams

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

Early on, if I was alone two or three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. - Jack Nicholson

Of all the useless things a person can do, limerick writing is right up there with golf and fishing. - Garrison Keillor

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

We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed.
But we're going back next week. - Groucho Marx

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

I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing. - Groucho Marx

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

I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with. - Sonia Sotomayor

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

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