#rite

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking. ↗

— Alvin Dark

#curve #how #know #made #mistake

In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns on the heads of thieves, called kings. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#kings #priests #thieves #age

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights. ↗

— Hal David

#everyone #gone #graceful #haven #how

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't. ↗

— Robyn Davidson

#just #myself #see #travel #writer

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great. ↗

— Jack Dempsey

#good #great #i #made #me

I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there. ↗

— Mac Davis

#born #called #circle #die #grow

My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence. ↗

— Peter Davison

#because #embarrassed #existence #extraordinarily #friends

As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#books #disheartening #distributed #enough #find

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr. ↗

— Martin Delany

#bestow #cat #everyone #favorite #meet

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#deeper #down #integrity #language #matches