#writ

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. ↗

— William Rose Benet

#life #lips #poetry #poisoned #who

Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score. ↗

— Elmer Bernstein

#became #been #commandments #dances #golden

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. ↗

— Herbert Gold

#boils #brought #careers #demands #edge

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. ↗

— Aharon Appelfeld

#civilization #his #individuality #narrow-minded #situation

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do. ↗

— Michael Apted

#creating #documentaries #i #i do #more

In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all. ↗

— David Baldacci

#after #area #bad #bad guys #every

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing. ↗

— Mackenzie Astin

#better time #directing #films #i #i think

I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing. ↗

— Sean Astin

#any #anything #appealing #appreciate #come

I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes. ↗

— Dave Attell

#comics #i #joke #jokes #like

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#never #perfection #waited #word #would