Comments on: Quotes on Writing and Freedom: Write the Other Way

By: Quotes On Writing And Freedom #5: Personal Freedom | Confident Writing

Quotes On Writing And Freedom #5: Personal Freedom | Confident Writing — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:55:31 +0000

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By: Joanna Young

Joanna Young — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:43:49 +0000

Thanks Alina. It’s one of the reasons I think so many of us enjoy blogging – it gives us just enough of an invitation to go and colour outside the lines

Joanna

By: Alina Padilla

Alina Padilla — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:33:44 +0000

Writers are often bogged down by grammer and its rules that they are not allowed to color outside the lines. This quote offers us a sense of freedom to write as we wish. Thanks for sharing.

By: Joanna Young

Joanna Young — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:19:02 +0000

A suitable favourite for a poet, I’d say

By: Bo

Bo — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:31:24 +0000

This has been one of my favorite quotes for a long time. What a great start to freedom.

By: Joanna Young

Joanna Young — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:46:43 +0000

Cath, I wonder what she would say if she could see you writing away now!

Mind you there is something about your work that is refreshingly challenging, as if (still) written from a different perspective or angle

Joanna

By: Joanna Young

Joanna Young — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:44:20 +0000

Emily, thanks for sharing such a great set of quotes. My mind has already started playing with ways these could apply to writing – it’s not hard really when you think how closely our words and our writing is tied to our sense of who we are, and what matters.

Thanks

Joanna

By: Cath Lawson

Cath Lawson — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:09:33 +0000

Hi Joanna – that is a great quote. I was one of those kids who did write the wrong way round. The teacher had to move the paper round a little bit each day until I actually wrote in the direction I was supposed to. I never could understand why she didn’t just turn the paper sideways when she was marking my work.

By: emily carmichael

emily carmichael — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:36:31 +0000

Joanna, I’m going to take the definition of ‘freedom’ very broadly here and share several favourites with you. Many have a political bent, or at least political origins, but take on new depths and shades when applied to something other, such as writing.

“Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.”
–Benjamin Franklin

“Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.”
–Walt Whitman

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
–Oscar Wilde

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘”There is no use trying,” said Alice; “one can’t believe impossible things.” ” I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”‘
–Lewis Carroll

“With a fierce disposition like the beat of a drum,
you get hurt more than others — but you have more fun.”
–Stephen Kellogg

By: Joanna Young

Joanna Young — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:52:12 +0000

Scott, I’m delighted that my short post prompted a long comment!

Interesting thought about the writing flow, including the physical limitations we get used to. I was at a workshop over the weekend and we were prompted to think about what our non-writing hand would say, would write, if we gave it the chance… I don’t know what it would be, but it would be different, for sure

Thanks for the Delillo quote, it’s a great one. I’m going to share a quote a week till the end of August, and I think this will have to go on the list!

Joanna