#writ

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected. ↗

— William Shatner

#discovery #documentary #else #expected #finish

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win. ↗

— William Shatner

#devastated #expectation #gives #hurt #speech

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot. ↗

— William Shatner

#blank #character #creative #creative art #ending

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#enjoy #football #get #hurt #like

A writer has to live with a sense of honor. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#live #sense #writer

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#honor #human #human being #live #sense

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#bad one #forget #good #remember #reviews

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#absolutely #almost #both #equipment #hands

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#curiously #full #life #states #their

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#deal #did #ernest #ernest hemingway #figure