#rite

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education. ↗

— Hugh MacDiarmid

#education #escaping #fortunate #nearly #our

When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places. ↗

— Seth MacFarlane

#going #hours #job #jokes #mind

When I shall again write to you, or where I shall be tomorrow, I cannot tell. ↗

— Dolley Madison

#cannot #i #shall #tell #tomorrow

I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them. ↗

— David Maraniss

#actually #after #although #bill #bill clinton

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#brilliant #five #got #i #just

She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#book #fortunes #fun #great #life

My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#beautiful #cole #day #emulate #favorite

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#choose #free #freedom #give #having

I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently. ↗

— Don Mattingly

#change #differently #head #i #i write

When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently. ↗

— Don Mattingly

#head #i #i write #note #sticks