#writ

By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all. ↗

— Michael Musto

#alive #end #get #i #still

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#end #lives #many #tend #their

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. ↗

— Beverley Nichols

#book #chapter #chapters #first #poetry

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people. ↗

— Jen Knox

#artist #empathy #life #philosophy #truth

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#birthday #classical #classical guitar #could #dad

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one? ↗

— Abraham Pais

#cited #course #everyone #frequencies #fundamental

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#background #crimes #experience #financial #found

Don't get it right, get it written. ↗

— Ally Carter

#advice

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them. ↗

— Criss Jami

#contemplation #creativity #days #eat #expression

It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great. ↗

— Rosamund Pike

#did #done #dream #film #friend