Ellen Goodman Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract. I work and fiddle and keep working and fiddling, and I only stop at the deadline.

  Ellen Goodman

  Writing, Add, Few Words

• You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.

  Ellen Goodman

  Children, Writing, Divorce

• You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.

  Ellen Goodman

  Writing, Who Cares, Columns

• It is not that fathers are better or worse, not that they are more loved or criticized, but rather that they are viewed with far less intensity. There is no Philip Roth or Woody Allen or Nancy Friday who writes about fathers with a runaway excess of humor, horror ... feeling. Most of us let our fathers off the hook.

  Ellen Goodman

  Friday, Father, Writing

  Ellen Goodman (1983). “At Large”, Fawcett Books

• People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.

  Ellen Goodman

  Writing, People, Movement

• Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.

  Ellen Goodman

  Writing, Thinking, Firsts

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