#rite

Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#evidence #false #fiction #find #historians

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way. ↗

— Lou Reed

#career #chandler #doing #going #his

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#clothed #flesh #human #human nature #inherited

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#about #am #best #both #closest

It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record. ↗

— Keith Urban

#collected #collecting #costly #get #had

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#i #i can #know #life #me

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair. ↗

— Brian Clough

#favourite #give #go #god #going

The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#lie #published #until #writer #you

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed. ↗