#writ

And George Farr had the town, the earth, the world to himself and his sorrow. Music came faint as a troubling rumor beneath the spring night, sweetened by distance: a longing knowing no ease. (Oh God, oh God!) At last George Farr gave up trying to see her. He had 'phoned vainly and time after time, at last the telephone became the end in place of the means: he had forgotten why he wanted to reach her. Finally he told himself that he hated her, that he would go away; finally he was going to as much pains to avoid her as he had been to see her. So he slunk about the streets like a criminal, avoiding her, feeling his his very heart stop when he did occasionally see her unmistakable body from a distance. And at night he lay sleepless and writhing to think of her, then to rise and don a few garments and walk past her darkened house, gazing in slow misery at the room in which he knew she lay, soft and warm, in intimate slumber, then to return to home and bed to dream of her brokenly. ↗

— William Faulkner

#writing #dreams

If I can't write it would be as if I died. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#i #would #write

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast. ↗

— Robert Caro

#fast #i #i write #nobody #very

When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#adult #became #began #boy #dreamed

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul. ↗

— Emily Carr

#be careful #careful #know #own #paint

Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives. ↗

— John le Carre

#certainly #good #got #haven #i

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life. ↗

— Tom Felton

#directing #film #film industry #i #industry

I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#comedian #find #funny #happen #i

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read! ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#actual #hour #i #letter #minutes

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#defeat #itself #life #love #lover