#rite

I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#day #every #every day #grammar #i

It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that. ↗

— Ben Okri

#either #even #felt #i #important

That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#columns #editorial #expressed #freedom #given

My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed. ↗

— John Krasinski

#doing #fantasy #favorite #football #friends

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader. ↗

— Ben Okri

#absolutely #absolutely not #best #reader #us

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance. ↗

— Will Oldham

#definitely #extent #i #i write #last

It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#always #between #black #books #communion

My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#beat #cup #easy #eggs #especially

Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#really #shakespeare #subtext #write #you

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#alcoholism #books #die #encouraging #essays