#rite

The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species. ↗

— Machado de Assis

#creativity #literature #novels #writers #writing

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian. ↗

— David Remnick

#complex #constant #enough #everything #happy

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough. ↗

— Anne Rice

#every #i #i write #meant #say

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#advice #compiler #designing #for the people #general

As a guest who doesn't eat, drink or smoke, you leave much to be desired, but as a writer, you're my girl. ↗

— Thelma Ritter

#drink #eat #girl #guest #leave

You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#job #make #time #write #you

If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#enough #feels #find #his #look

And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#i can #most #people #recorded #say

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#books #in the past #past #store #surprises

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write. ↗

— Maya Rudolph

#especially #fact #i #learned #now