#rite

I like L.A. It's like a mini break. For a writer, it's hilarious. Like the food. Where I come from, we eat chip sandwiches: white bread, butter, tomato catsup and big fat french fries. It's delicious. Here, you order a creme caramel and the waiter says, 'You know, that contains dairy.' ↗

— Helen Fielding

#bread #break #butter #chip #come

Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#create #doing #easier #hit #keep

The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#belong #fall #fit #him #his

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#careers #doctors #enough #lady #lawyers

My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that. ↗

— Les Claypool

#every #favorite #i #i love #like

Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#because #behind #fun #i #i think

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#could #court #ghetto #guided #heart

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#every #his #own #tell #time

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time. ↗

— Lee Child

#books #driven #environment #hour #i

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#critic #i #i do #me #say