Writing Lists Quotes

#1. When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I would never do a dish unless I had to write.

Fran Lebowitz

#2. I lean back in my chair and turn on my computer. I have to admit that writing the list did help. Another point for Dad, king of the lists. Bert asks if

Alice J. Wisler

#3. New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.

Taylor Momsen

#4. Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.

Stephen King

#5. If the chaos is overwhelming, I start making lists. To write it down puts it in perspective.

Renee Lawless

#6. Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.

Kate Greenaway

#7. Writing a patch is the easiest part of open source. The truly hard stuff is all of the rest: bug trackers, mailing lists, documentation, and other management tasks.

Anonymous

#8. Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because they are no longer concerned about their own interests and their own reputation, and therefore they no longer need to waste their efforts in defending them.

Thomas Merton

#9. In short, to enter the lists of literature is wilfully to expose yourself to the arrows of neglect, ridicule, envy, and disappointment. Whether you write well or ill, be assured that you will not escape from blame ...

Matthew Gregory Lewis

#10. But perhaps people who liked to write aways made lists! Just for the fun of it.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#11. Following Big Boss Lady's dictate to write about offbeat places in Edinburgh - I found Arkangel and Felon, an eclectic clothing boutique, the Voodoo Rooms, a chic fringe bar with a burlesque show, and Angels with Bagpipes, a bijou wine bar on the Royal Mile.

Leah Marie Brown

#12. I never notice a difference between photographing a man and a woman; for me, it's just somebody.

Mario Testino

#13. When you feel protective toward your parents, you have become an adult.

Mason Cooley

#14. And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.

George W Truett

#15. That's one of the many things I hate about life, that it's a hideously cliched business.

John Banville

#16. If you don't pass through anything in life, you can't be anything.

Matthew Ashimolowo

#17. By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

Alvin Toffler

#18. A poetic list is a talent in itself. You can write a list of things, and it can be boring.

Pattiann Rogers

#19. After discovering him in his threesome, I spent the next two weeks in bed suffering from a severe case of vagina elbow. It's a condition not unlike tennis elbow, but you get it from masturbating.

Chelsea Handler

#20. Love God so much that, when you are entrusted with much, nothing else will be able to control your heart

Sunday Adelaja

#21. First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago.

Carl Wilson

#22. I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person ... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

Phyllis A. Whitney

#23. Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse's positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently.

Zelig Pliskin

#24. Make lists. Write down the things that give you power. Write down the things that take your power away also. Make lists of people close to you. Are you associations raising you to a higher level of attention?

Frederick Lenz

#25. I'm sorry," Billy says, "but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly all those devices like long lists of melancholy things.

Edmund White

#26. I've been a list maker for years, even before I was a musician. I was always writing things down and kept long lists of things that would make good album titles and things like that. I'm constantly thinking in terms of songwriting.

Buzz Osborne