#rite

One of my favorites is 'The Sound of Music'. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up. ↗

— Mark Roberts

#andrews #blow #favorites #gust #head

I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors. ↗

— Sean Penn

#favorite #favorite people #i #i love #love

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#easier #incorrect #program #than #understand

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#programs #third #two #ways #works

There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. ↗

— Ross Perot

#living #read #things #two #worth

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club? ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#ass #better #chair #club #down

Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#around #changed #clubs #coffee #finish

I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. ↗

— Enoch Powell

#diary #every #every day #i #i do

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#books #cranky #get #hard #i

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation. ↗

— Richard Powers

#doing #each #great #i #i am