#writ

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#hand #only #thing #true #write

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#history #i #influence #lies #logic

I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#attention #audience #because #book #capture

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#being #certain #colleagues #community #did

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#books #british #british museum #might #monkeys

Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two. ↗

— Mark Boal

#easiest thing #figure #four #just #later

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words. ↗

— Steven Bochco

#communication #film #good #requires #screenwriter

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good. ↗

— Steven Bochco

#believe #commits #good #problems #process

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#better #good #good luck #i #i can

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs! ↗

— Zac Efron

#cd #doing #future #i #kid