#writ

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#always #any #did #doing #felt

I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#getting #head #heat #i #i can

I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#except #i #medium #poetry #suck

As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work. ↗

— Peter Straub

#excitement #felt #first #going #i

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. ↗

— Peter Straub

#began #fiction #full-time #i #instantly

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do. ↗

— Peter Straub

#henry #henry james #i #i write #james

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa. ↗

— Peter Straub

#again #because #better #characters #doubt

The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

#breath #distressing #more #more and more #rose

These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#arranged #been #busily #days #employed