#rite

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me. ↗

— Edward Bond

#going #i #i write #mad #make

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#angry #bob #bob dylan #british #certainly

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#alone #author #away #being #enough

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#experience #i #i think #junkies #looking

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write. ↗

— George W. Bush

#come #could #i #less #much

You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at. ↗

— Robert Caro

#drafts #everybody #first #four #go

I write about my life. ↗

— George Michael

#i #i write #life #my life #write

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#hong kong #i #knew #kong #once

When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#any #childhood #did #ever #felt

You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#former #friend #only #write #you