#writ

I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in. ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

#come #continue #else #grandchildren #grandparents

People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#device #drivers #empathy #humans #interface

Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#cakes #hot #i #judging #letters

The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#had #i #me #posters #put

We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him. ↗

— Freddie Hubbard

#because #chance #gave #good #great

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#days #depressing #family #guilty #guilty pleasure

Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#book #description #dialogue #first #flip

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#because #dream #graham #greene #i

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#because #before #did #directing #few

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#begin #characters #direction #feel #heading