#ellis

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing. ↗

— Kate Smith

#am #composer #embellish #his #i

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#embellish #invent #job #make #novelist

Ellis: "What's so funny?" Skyla: You're funny," I say. "You look real scary. I bet your mom's proud, though." I don't know why I add that last bit, I just do. ↗

— Addison Moore

#skyla #funny

Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living. ↗

— Warren Ellis

#warren-ellis #writing #writers-on-writing

I have to return some videotapes ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#bale #bret #christian #easton #ellis

Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it. ↗

— Aljean Harmetz

#lies #lying #writers #writing #world-war-ii

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe. ↗

— Nicholas Breton

#foe #friend #hellish #hollow #know

I just find things that work and embellish them. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#find #i #just #them #things

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#characters #creating #define #dislike #embellish

People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts. ↗

— Joey Santiago

#ask #change #embellish #going #guitar