#rite

Music is my favorite thing in the world. I grew up completely around it and I think it's one of the most important things to me, but at this point I can't see myself doing that professionally. Luckily, for the most part, I don't feel pressured. ↗

— Riley Keough

#completely #doing #favorite #feel #grew

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#editors #formed #i #ideals #my own

What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play. ↗

— Richard Foreman

#decided #happened #i #kind #new

Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#easy #easy way #living #make #professional

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#anything #because #come #develop #ever

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway! ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#applications #beauty #code #course #cross-platform

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells. ↗

— B. B. King

#could #every #every night #favorite #i

It doesn't take me long to write songs. ↗

— Ben E. King

#me #songs #take #write

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff. ↗

— Charles King

#care #grown #how #i #i care

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut. ↗

— Stephen King

#around #aware #i #lot #must