#rite

I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out. ↗

— Yvonne Strahovski

#favorite #favorite things #freaked #freaky #go

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#become #character #first-person #i #like

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#fiction #get #i #i think #i write

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.' ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#back #down #drawn #falling #falling in love

I'd love to write for other people. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#love #other #people #write

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#bit #embellish #experience #i #i do

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#after #argument #been #case #could

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#books #come #could #exist #i

I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#best #college #dropped #i #learn

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#feels #mind #praise #reproof #unmerited