Indian Writing

I am a drinker with writing problems. - Brendan Behan

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

Television has raised writing to a new low. - Samuel Goldwyn

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

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop. - L.M. Montgomery

I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint. - Lynn Collins

Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread. - Ion Tiriac

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

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

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book. - Shereen El Feki

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

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

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

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. - Robert Frost

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. - Ernest Hemingway

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Cicero

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

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

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

That's what Columbus said to the Indians just before he gypped 'em out of Manhattan. - Archie Bunker

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. - Ivern Ball

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

What do people do with all the extra time they save by writing 'k' instead of 'ok'? - Unknown

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

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall. - Alan Bennett

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

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 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

Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white. - Russell Peters

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

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. - Robert Frost

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

I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer. - Michael P King