#i write

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#everything #finished #gomez #i #i write

The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#curve #dreamed #ever #every #every time

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#anyone #away #books #done #family

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#i #i think #i write #manner #self-confident

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well. ↗

— Horace

#i #i write #never #nobody #same

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#himself #i #i write #just #money

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#character #characters #does #i #i write

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#head #i #i write #inside #left

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#i write #job #know #piano #play

I write about the things I feel strongly about. ↗

— Dido Armstrong

#feel #i #i feel #i write #strongly