#writ

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift. ↗

— Mavis Gallant

#began #done #dream #father #fear

At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world. The greatest tales are told over and over, in many ways, through centuries. Fantasy changes with the changing times, and yet it is still the oldest kind of tale in the world, for it began once upon a time, and we haven't heard the end of it yet. ↗

— Patricia A. McKillip

#myth #reading #writing #change

I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work. ↗

— Glenn Frey

#back #doing #go #i #read

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. ↗

— Horace

#drinkers #live #long #please #poems

So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments. ↗

— Uri Geller

#anything #around #books #governments #i

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#anything #could #did #how #i

Not all great writers may seem great to us, regardless of how often and how hard we try to see their virtues. I know, for example, that Trollope is considered to have been a brilliant novelist, but I’ve never quite understood what makes his fans so fervent. Still, our tastes change as we ourselves change and grow older, and perhaps in a few months or so Trollope will have become my new favorite writer. ↗

— Francine Prose

#change

My writing style has changed dramatically over the years, growing increasingly clean and exact. I like to think that I'm still improving -- that each book I write is a new personal best. ↗

— Barbara Delinsky

#change

I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view. ↗

— Elizabeth George

#believes #both #disconcerting #discover #fascinating

Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning. ↗

— Elizabeth George

#beginning #book #comes #cover #end