#rite

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#course #dead #democracy #else #everything

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#aim #always #authenticity #bother #confuse

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#bomb #button #dragon #man #poet

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone. ↗

— Sebastian Bach

#hum #i #i write #into #lyrics

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#censure #character #criticism #freely #i

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year. ↗

— David Baldacci

#people #some #some people #take #under

The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like. ↗

— David Baldacci

#been #cool #down #i #joined

There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

#go #letters #me #movies #people

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#any #born #conspiracy #cultivation #feels

I want to be an honest man and a good writer. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#good writer #honest #honest man #i #man