#rite

Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun. ↗

— Patti Digh

#verb #write #writer #writing-life #life

I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. ↗

— David Baldacci

#driven #find #go #i #new

All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life as he sees it, reassembles in his own way the details of existence which affect him deeply, and so creates a spiritual world of his own. ↗

— Haniel Long

#storytellers #writers #life

When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it. ↗

— Howard Barker

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I'm envious of the pigeon. It doesn't have a care in the world beyond eating, sleeping, and defecating on park statues. That's the life. ↗

— C.J. Roberts

#life

A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write. ↗

— Joan Jett

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What Jessica said—hair much shorter, wearing a darker mouth of different outline, harder lipstick, her typewriter banking in a phalanx of letters between them—was: "We're going to be married. We're trying very hard to have a baby." All at once there is nothing but his asshole between Gravity and Roger. "I don't care. Have his baby. I'll love you both—just come with me Jess, please... I need you...." She flips a red lever on her intercom. Far away a buzzer goes off. "Security." Her voice is perfectly hard, the word still clap-echoing in the air as in through the screen door of the Quonset office wth a smell of tide flats come the coppers, looking grim. Security. Her magic word, her spell against demons. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#love

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#nothing #say #write #you

Life: my favorite occupation. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#life #occupation

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them. ↗

— Octavia Butler

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