#writ

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#adolescence #eleven #great #had #i

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#children #i #i am #novel #second

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#entertaining #half #i #more #much

We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers. ↗

— Theresa May

#crime #fighters #form #getting #officers

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really. ↗

— John Mayall

#dictates #goes #i #i write #mood

A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#means #thought #typewriter

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily. ↗

— John Mayer

#assuming #currently #emotion #emotional #experiencing

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. ↗

— John Mayer

#guitar #guitar player #i #jock #player

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#his #into #inviting #letters #life

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#distasteful #me #money #people #speak