#rite

There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business. ↗

— Tori Amos

#big business #business #divas #industry #nurtures

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#anyone #guitar #knows #majority #matter

I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the typewriter into a bar of steel and clubbing yourself to death with it. (“Advance Notice”) ↗

— Richard Matheson

#writing #death

I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar. ↗

— Joaquin Andujar

#always #bad #i #know #things

TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#always #anybody #based #billion #internet

Viktor was swinging a leather duffle and wearing a black Adidas tracksuit and his favorite brown UGG slippers with a hole in the toe. "Worn and old, just like Viv," he'd say when Frankie made fun of them, and then his wife would swat him on the arm. But Frankie knew he was just joking, because Viveka was the type of woman you wished was in a magazine just so you could stare at her violet-colored eyes and shiny black hair without being called a stalker or a freak. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#beauty #clothing #daughter #husband #joke

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write. ↗

— Roger Ascham

#been #learned #least #most #part

That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem. ↗

— Les Aspin

#bigger #even #frankly #go #gone

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#baby #been #born #business #business school

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#i love #love #songs #songwriter #writing