Quotes About Writing In The Sand

#1. A writing in the sand which all may read but few understand. - Philip Jose Farmer in 'Riders of the Purple Wage

Philip Jose Farmer

#2. Writing on the beach is not what it's cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and the page gets all blotty and messed up, so I don't do that anymore.

Elmore Leonard

#3. All those things for which we have no words are lost. The mind - the culture - has two little tools, grammar and lexicon: a decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel. With these we bluster about the continents and do all the world's work. With these we try to save our very lives.

Annie Dillard

#4. The Dream Lover-what a bold, insightful, and enticing novel. And how vigorously Elizabeth Berg brings us the iconoclastic life of George Sand. Berg writes with such intimacy and compassion that I think she must have some shared ancestral DNA with Sand. I savored every page.

Frances Mayes

#5. We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids ...

George Sand

#6. He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.

{Describing the writing style of famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss}

Niels Henrik Abel

#7. Learning is deeper and more durable when it's effortful. Learning that's easy is like writing in sand, here today and gone tomorrow.

Peter C. Brown

#8. Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.

Pythagoras

#9. In the 18th Century William Blake saw Heaven in a grain of sand. Most people nowadays can't even see the writing on the wall.

Dean Cavanagh

#10. I am no writer. Her sparkling eyes made my fingers write words in the sand. Her radiant smile made my pen write words in the air. Her beautiful soul made my typewriter type poems for eternity. I am no writer.

Avijeet Das

#11. May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#12. I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.

Andre Dubus III

#13. Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.

George Sand

#14. I'm also big on journaling. You can write in the sand or on a watermelon or whatever suits you, but the key is to get it out of your head and out of your heart and down your arms and into something, a keyboard or piece of paper.

Deborah King

#15. The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.

Giovannino Guareschi

#16. From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand ... I came here to hold on to fleeting life, and I see all about me only death ... I write this, not quite knowing what I'm saying, but I dry the ink with the dust of Egyptian queens.

Rachel

#17. Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the power of the line, she writes, 'I think the plastics/and sink them' then 'Where is the sand/man hiding the dirt.' These terse, biting poems will make you look around and wonder.

Rae Armantrout

#18. Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.

Lorin Morgan-Richards

#19. I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of Sand and Fog,' my wife never saw a word of it. I just have to keep it in the womb, and then everyone can have a crack at it.

Andre Dubus III

#20. Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.

Aaron Sorkin

#21. Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble

Charles Spurgeon

#22. Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.

Dwight L. Moody

#23. You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.

George Sand

#24. Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Shannon Hale

#25. Tom found himself writing "BECKY" in the sand with his big toe; he scratched it out, and was angry with himself for his weakness. But he wrote it again, nevertheless; he could not help it.

Mark Twain

#26. Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.

George Bernard Shaw

#27. Rhythm. Life is full of it; words should have it, too. But you have to train your ear. Listen to the waves on a quiet night; you'll pick up the cadence. Look at the patterns the wind makes in dry sand and you'll see how syllables in a sentence should fall. Arthur Gordon

Arthur Gordon

#28. The other one was filled with loud and obnoxious tourists. Always boasting on winning a sand castle competition and seeing who could get tanned first. What a whacky bunch of people.

Erica Sehyun Song

#29. Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

Robert Black

#30. We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.

Charles Spurgeon

#31. Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.

Truman Capote

#32. I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

George Sand