#rite

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#absolute freedom #become #compensation #fool #freedom

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#autobiography #book #boring #details #full

I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words back, or even a phone call as I have done on a few occasions. ↗

— Jim Dale

#call #deserves #done #down #enough

My favorite song to play is 'Smokin'' by Boston. I actually had a chance to play that with the band Boston live. ↗

— Doug Flutie

#band #boston #chance #favorite #had

I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#biggest #call #compelling #economic issues #genre

I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad,' and it's hard for me to start sometimes. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#artist #bad #caught #draw #get

The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying. ↗

— Ken Follett

#draft #easiest #every #first #fun

If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book. ↗

— John M. Ford

#darker #i #much #now #web

The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#break #conglomerate #diversity #doing #field

After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#america #around #bush #confusion #depression