#rite

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#alcoholism #books #die #encouraging #essays

My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest. ↗

— Haley Joel Osment

#because #central #central park #favorite #find

In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator. ↗

— Fulton Oursler

#bible #book #creator #creature #ending

I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#been #book #feel #i #many

This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist. ↗

— Warren Rudman

#bad #disaster #every #facing #good

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#characters #great #human #human behaviour #root

I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#change #i #i write #idiot #just

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

#catches #changes #dynamic #exciting #growth

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#because #catharsis #concerned #i #i write

Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you. ↗

— Andrew Sarris

#couch #else #favorite #i #me