#rite

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#hand #only #thing #true #write

I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#attention #audience #because #book #capture

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#being #certain #colleagues #community #did

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#better #good #good luck #i #i can

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs! ↗

— Zac Efron

#cd #doing #future #i #kid

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#around #ball #ball game #becomes #composer

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with. ↗

— Michael Emerson

#director #get #go #help #i

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour. ↗

— Eminem

#go #head #hour #i #into

Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written. ↗

— Robert Emmet

#character #country #earth #epitaph #her

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#feels #here #i #i am #irritated