#rite

I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to write. ↗

— Alia Shawkat

#certain things #good #i #natural #necessarily

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees. ↗

— Bruce Vilanch

#different kinds #fees #get #i #i write

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all). ↗

— Don Cheadle

#amount #because #favorite #film #i

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. ↗

— John Cheever

#i #kiss #like #precisely #reader

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness. ↗

— John Cheever

#discover #life #make #need #sense

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#dealer #entertainer #writer

My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one. ↗

— Gary Cherone

#favorite #first #i #last #listen

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#better #every #friend #get #i

Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#evidence #false #fiction #find #historians

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way. ↗

— Lou Reed

#career #chandler #doing #going #his