#rite

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.' ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#back #back-up #get #go #i

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not. ↗

— Len Wein

#matter #period #someone #work #writer

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw. ↗

— Len Wein

#done #draw #give #had #i

Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#collaborate #different #jokes #nicely #novels

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#attention #beach #book #capital #considers

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#becomes #bestseller #book #chick #fascination

I always laugh the hardest at the stuff you see in day-to-day life. It's great when somebody can tell a joke that really makes you laugh hard, but to see some kind of personal interaction that no one could write is so good. Those are always the things that make me laugh. ↗

— Luke Wilson

#could #day-to-day #day-to-day life #good #great

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#writers #writing #life

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#could #i #music #myself #really

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#academics #body #book #consumes #each