#rite

Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view. ↗

— Richard Russo

#everyone #point #point of view #view #well

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. ↗

— Richard Russo

#comprehending #deepest #failures #fiction #fiction writer

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again. ↗

— Richard Russo

#another #assumes #authors #begin #end

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next. ↗

— Richard Russo

#does #faith #find #happens #how

I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#i #least #rock #rock star #singer

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#beautiful #common #common man #education #idea

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#ample #been #block #far #hasn

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day. ↗

— William Safire

#any #aside #cast #column #day

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media. ↗

— William Safire

#choir #erudition #longer #media #off

And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#favorite #i #just #really #sang