#rite

I don't listen to what people say about me and I don't read what they write about me. People can compare me to anyone they want to, but I'm not going to worry about it. ↗

— Eric Davis

#anyone #compare #going #i #listen

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years. ↗

— Mac Davis

#ghetto #i #trying #write #years

Growing up, my favorite TV show was Star Trek. ↗

— Casper Van Dien

#growing #growing up #show #star #star trek

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up. ↗

— Joan Didion

#failed #first #freeze #i #i always

It’s not: I jumped in, and it was cold. No. It was cold, and I jumped in. Always arrange a sentence so you appear to be fearless, when in fact you are far less than fearless—you are clueless. 
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#appearances #clueless #fear #fearless #funny

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#even #every #every day #just #paragraph

When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun. ↗

— Didi Conn

#around #book #could #did #drawing

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#close #craft #criminal #criminal justice #criminal justice system

The characters I write about are very internal. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#characters #i #i write #internal #very

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#career #groups #i #i think #pompous