Caitlin Moran Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of every sentence, and each one is either being useful or beautiful, but hopefully both.

  Caitlin Moran

  Beautiful, Writing, Feminist

• Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.

  Caitlin Moran

  Writing, Should Have, Dull

  "Half Wollstonecraft, Half LOLcats: Talking with Caitlin Moran" by Sally Errico, www.newyorker.com. November 15, 2012.

• I can only work between the hours of 8:30 and 4:30, because that's when the kids are at school. So I get to do all my work and have all of my fun in that time, which means just sitting on a chair, typing, alternately clicking between writing a column and being on Twitter, and smoking as many cigarettes as I can before my lungs give out.

  Caitlin Moran

  Fun, Writing, School

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• I had given up on being beautiful. But I thought I could kind of inspire boys to write songs about me. So I became a music journalist at the age of 16.

  Caitlin Moran

  Beautiful, Song, Writing

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

• If anyone was going to write a song or, you know, or a book, or make a film about a girl like me, it was going to have to be a girl like me, and quite literally, me.

  Caitlin Moran

  Girl, Song, Book

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

• If you come from a working-class background, you can't afford to write full time, because you're just not being paid. Basically, all my arguments come down to Marxist doctrine: The world is shaped by money, so the only voices you'll hear are the ones with money behind them. But thankfully, culture and cool are some things that circumvent money, because if you're cool, people will want to give you money - suddenly you shape the market and people start coming to you. Which is why culture has always been a traditional way out for working-class people.

  Caitlin Moran

  Writing, People, Giving

• In the end I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.

  Caitlin Moran

  Writing, Want, Ends

  "Caitlin Moran: 'Let's all go and be feminists in the pub'". Interview with Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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