#rite

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#being #body #cheque #class #doing

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. ↗

— Charles Peguy

#guts #his #other #out #overcoat

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#because #discipline #looking #love #sell

One of the smartest things one can do in life sometimes…is play stupid. Be encouraged ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

#authors #best-quote-ever #book-clubs #books #bookstores

It wouldn’t matter if he was a bad boy , if you got rid of your bad habit. Be encouraged ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

#authors #best-quote-ever #book-clubs #books #bookstores

I love 'Some Enchanted Evening', and 'If I Loved You'. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites. ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#evening #favorites #find #i #i love

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it. ↗

— Trevor McDonald

#lot #never #poetry #read #say

I'm a huge fan of Big L. He is my favorite rapper. ↗

— Andy Milonakis

#fan #favorite #huge #huge fan #i

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#am #direct #director #films #found

A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words. ↗

— Marcus Mumford

#books #focusing #helpful #into #just