#rite

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#engaging #enjoy #fact #go #i

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times. ↗

— Jack Vance

#away #countless #done #find #fit

My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or in a slow cooker until it falls apart with simple mushrooms, some onions and lots of fresh thyme and garlic. ↗

— Tyler Florence

#beef #comfort #comfort food #dutch #falls

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#between #even #fountain #fountain pen #i

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#anywhere #could #does #go #living

Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another. ↗

— James Franco

#any #direction #having #lead #me

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#antoinette #biography #had #heart #hearts

When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine. ↗

— David Friedman

#fine #hear #i #made #off

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington. ↗

— David Frum

#group #more #other #people #speech

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music. ↗

— Edgard Varese

#am #any #conceive #electrical #handicapped