#writ

When I went in, my editor said, 'I hope you don't think you're a writer.' And I said, 'I hope you don't think I'm a journalist.' And, uh, turned out we were both right. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#editor #hope #i #journalist #out

I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#ascetic #brain #distracted #fairly #get

I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#away #because #cooking #creative #creative process

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it? ↗

— Mary Chesnut

#hear #i #i do #i see #loathing

I'm not the slowest writer that you know. ↗

— David Remnick

#know #slowest #writer #you

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing. ↗

— Amy Clampitt

#doing #men #most #plausible #some

I really didn't think about song writing. ↗

— Adam Rich

#i #really #song #song writing #think

The Sweat and the Furrow was Silas Weekley being earthly and spade-conscious all over seven hundred pages. The situation, to judge from the first paragraph, had not materially changed since Silas's last book: mother lying-in with her eleventh upstairs, father laid-out after his ninth downstairs, eldest son lying to the Government in the cow-shed, eldest daughter lying with her lover in the the hayloft, everyone else lying low in the barn. The rain dripped from the thatch, and the manure steamed in the midden. Silas never omitted the manure. It was not Silas's fault that its steam provided the only uprising element in the picture. If Silas could have discovered a brand of steam that steamed downwards, Silas would have introduced it. ↗

— Josephine Tey

#change

I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#boring #i #memoir #never #too

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job. ↗

— Tom Cochrane

#done #feel #job #less #little