#writ

There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds. ↗

— Athanasius

#approach #cleanse #copying #deeds #first

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#good #good song #know #right #song

When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#i #listen #obsessed #time #wanted

Writing music is just something that I was born to do. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

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In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#direction #engaged #found #i #moving

I write about the things I feel strongly about. ↗

— Dido Armstrong

#feel #i #i feel #i write #strongly

Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#better #beyond #bible #bigger #centuries

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#certain #need #nerve #writer #you

The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#already #character #complete #considered #denser