Comments on: Quote-Hunting: How to Improve Your Writing and Your Life http://writetodone.com/2009/03/30/quote-hunting-how-to-improve-your-writing-and-your-life/ Unmissable articles on writing. Twice weekly. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:45:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Danielle Ingram http://writetodone.com/2009/03/30/quote-hunting-how-to-improve-your-writing-and-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-9920 Danielle Ingram Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:54:33 +0000 http://writetodone.com/?p=1011#comment-9920 Really lovely post, as a writer it can be so easy to get consumed in your own world, writing about your own thoughts and feelings, I totally agree with you it is so important and so inspiring to take a little bit of something from other writers! Really lovely post, as a writer it can be so easy to get consumed in your own world, writing about your own thoughts and feelings, I totally agree with you it is so important and so inspiring to take a little bit of something from other writers!

]]> By: Chad Prigmore http://writetodone.com/2009/03/30/quote-hunting-how-to-improve-your-writing-and-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-9207 Chad Prigmore Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:43:51 +0000 http://writetodone.com/?p=1011#comment-9207 Hi Janice, What a great article. I've been an avid reader my entire life, and I have notebooks full of quotes and excerpts. I really enjoy finding an old notebook and re-discovering something I jotted down years ago. Thanks! Hi Janice,

What a great article. I’ve been an avid reader my entire life, and I have notebooks full of quotes and excerpts. I really enjoy finding an old notebook and re-discovering something I jotted down years ago.

Thanks!

]]> By: janice http://writetodone.com/2009/03/30/quote-hunting-how-to-improve-your-writing-and-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-9148 janice Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:40:23 +0000 http://writetodone.com/?p=1011#comment-9148 @ladyexpat Thank you! I clicked your link and went for a wee travel...glorious! @new blogger You've made my day! Being allowed to write this post has brought me nothing but joy. You may be a new blogger, but your site is fresh and lovely and I can see you're a natural capturer of inspiration. Enjoyed your 'maybes'. @ladyexpat
Thank you! I clicked your link and went for a wee travel…glorious!
@new blogger
You’ve made my day! Being allowed to write this post has brought me nothing but joy. You may be a new blogger, but your site is fresh and lovely and I can see you’re a natural capturer of inspiration. Enjoyed your ‘maybes’.

]]> By: New Blogger http://writetodone.com/2009/03/30/quote-hunting-how-to-improve-your-writing-and-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-9146 New Blogger Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:50:51 +0000 http://writetodone.com/?p=1011#comment-9146 Chills ran up and down my spine because I felt like I was reading about myself! Quotes have been my inspiration with my writing and my life. Thank you for writing such a wonderful article! Chills ran up and down my spine because I felt like I was reading about myself! Quotes have been my inspiration with my writing and my life. Thank you for writing such a wonderful article!

]]> By: Ladyexpat http://writetodone.com/2009/03/30/quote-hunting-how-to-improve-your-writing-and-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-9084 Ladyexpat Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:43:46 +0000 http://writetodone.com/?p=1011#comment-9084 Great post. You have given me an entirely new way to look at quotes. Thank you! Great post. You have given me an entirely new way to look at quotes. Thank you!

]]> By: janice http://writetodone.com/2009/03/30/quote-hunting-how-to-improve-your-writing-and-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-9080 janice Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:31:35 +0000 http://writetodone.com/?p=1011#comment-9080 @TRAVELINOMA "It’s like running into an old friend" Exactly! I did my dissertation on Katherine Mansfield at university and when I came across my old paperback of her Letters and Journals, I gasped when I saw the quotes I'd underlined in pencil. It was like time travel, as if I'd written messages to the me I'd be in decades to come!! @TRAVELINOMA

“It’s like running into an old friend”

Exactly! I did my dissertation on Katherine Mansfield at university and when I came across my old paperback of her Letters and Journals, I gasped when I saw the quotes I’d underlined in pencil. It was like time travel, as if I’d written messages to the me I’d be in decades to come!!

]]> By: TravelinOma http://writetodone.com/2009/03/30/quote-hunting-how-to-improve-your-writing-and-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-9079 TravelinOma Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:51:24 +0000 http://writetodone.com/?p=1011#comment-9079 I write quotes in the margins of books that I know I'll reread. It's like running into an old friend. I also have some computer folders called "Quotes about Mothers" "Quotes about Writing" etc. where I collect my favorites. Somehow quotes always seem new. I like your comparison to lyrics and music. I write quotes in the margins of books that I know I’ll reread. It’s like running into an old friend. I also have some computer folders called “Quotes about Mothers” “Quotes about Writing” etc. where I collect my favorites. Somehow quotes always seem new. I like your comparison to lyrics and music.

]]> By: Nadia - Happy Lotus http://writetodone.com/2009/03/30/quote-hunting-how-to-improve-your-writing-and-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-9078 Nadia - Happy Lotus Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:24:13 +0000 http://writetodone.com/?p=1011#comment-9078 Hi Janice, I definitely have kept all my quote books and as for notebooks, it depends on the material. If I have used all the material in the notebooks, I usually shred it. But if I have still have not used all the material, I keep it. Don't worry...you will settle into a new routine. It takes time but you will. :) Hi Janice,

I definitely have kept all my quote books and as for notebooks, it depends on the material. If I have used all the material in the notebooks, I usually shred it. But if I have still have not used all the material, I keep it.

Don’t worry…you will settle into a new routine. It takes time but you will. :)

]]> By: Why Do You Write? http://writetodone.com/2009/03/30/quote-hunting-how-to-improve-your-writing-and-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-9077 Why Do You Write? Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:11:40 +0000 http://writetodone.com/?p=1011#comment-9077 [...] every month about my articles, the heartwarming support I received from my first guest post at Write to Done yesterday and from this blog’s first ever comments made me feel like I’m not wasting my [...] [...] every month about my articles, the heartwarming support I received from my first guest post at Write to Done yesterday and from this blog’s first ever comments made me feel like I’m not wasting my [...]

]]> By: janice http://writetodone.com/2009/03/30/quote-hunting-how-to-improve-your-writing-and-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-9076 janice Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:50:42 +0000 http://writetodone.com/?p=1011#comment-9076 Thank you Nadia! I'm still at that soppy stage where I can't believe it's mine and lying there in its metaphorical crib! The building part has been hard but I'm looking forward just to settling back into some kind of writing routine now. Do you keep all your notebooks? I eventually shred my writing ideas notebooks, but keep the quotebooks. Thank you Nadia! I’m still at that soppy stage where I can’t believe it’s mine and lying there in its metaphorical crib! The building part has been hard but I’m looking forward just to settling back into some kind of writing routine now. Do you keep all your notebooks? I eventually shred my writing ideas notebooks, but keep the quotebooks.

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