Quotes About Writing Rituals

#1. No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.

Stephen Greenblatt

#2. A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

#3. There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I really want to work with guys I really respect and enjoy.

J. Michael Straczynski

#4. More often writing soliloquies of suffering and consolation than collective songs like the dirge, elegists have discovered that lyric sequences can provide a powerful means of addressing the tensions between grief's inchoate emotion and social rituals of mourning.

Susan Stewart

#5. Every religion ... has rituals, practices, holy writings or traditions, etc. Nothing like that has ever developed from Atheism. There are no holy men, holidays or holy books and no agreed-upon canons of faith. In fact, the only thing you can get some Atheists to agree upon is that there is no god.

Darrel Ray

#6. The assassin's bullet: Lee Harvey Oswald created a constitutional space for decisive legislative action, opening a path for Lyndon Johnson to save the civil rights revolution at the cost of destroying the New Deal coalition.

Bruce A. Ackerman

#7. Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.

Anne Lamott

#8. If time means nothing to you, then surf the Web.

John C. Dvorak

#9. You know how they say the grass is always greener on the other side? It is greener, because you're not there. And if you go you'll trample it and leave dirty footprints and probably spill something poisonous.

Ekaterina Sedia

#10. I like to stretch my mind by reading and writing and watching educational TV shows like The Bachelor to learn the complex mating rituals of heterosexuals.

Ellen DeGeneres

#11. There was always something. It's like with this one, there's always something that's mad that I look back on it and go, that's pretty amazing to say that I've done that or been there.

Karl Pilkington

#12. Just do the right thing when the time comes.

Jerry Ibbotson

#13. Rituals help us change modes.

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

#14. The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

Rudolf Bing

#15. I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.

Marcus Brigstocke

#16. My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet.

Tim Curry