#rite

If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#cold #day #i #i write #know

If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make. ↗

— Drew Endy

#dna #limited #longer #make #write

I got to write most of everything I said. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#got #i #most #said #write

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#friendly #i #i can #like #only

Why the hell can't people just write nice happy stories about people having happy sex? That's what I want, and I bet a whole bunch of other people want it too. ↗

— Phil Foglio

#bet #bunch #happy #having #hell

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#alive #come #happened #i #make

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#dinner #dinner parties #go #i #i write

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#anybody #anymore #anything #certain #enterprise

I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#anyone #could #i #i think #influence

What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#book #down #even #funny #i