#rite

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#anything #become #decided #else #i

I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#capable #create #did #earth #either

I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport. ↗

— Jon Anderson

#great #great moments #i #i think #life

Shanks and I tend to have a lot of fun. And, oh, any of The Simpsons' episodes are my favorites too. ↗

— Richard Dean Anderson

#episodes #favorites #fun #i #lot

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him. ↗

— Roger Ascham

#any #aristotle #common #common people #counsel

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them. ↗

— John Ashbery

#experiences #i #i write #mind #out

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve. ↗

— Jane Asher

#always #because #could #definition #feel

Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth! ↗

— Malcolm Arnold

#am #another #been #donald #expert

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them. ↗

— Syd Barrett

#i #i do #like #lines #other

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired. ↗

— Greg Bear

#also #brilliant #charming #could #friendship