#writ

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person. ↗

— Rita Dove

#away #book #dream #far #far away

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing. ↗

— Rita Dove

#began #college #entire #entire life #i

To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you. ↗

— Rita Dove

#anything #because #dealing #else #going

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#books #enjoy #fiction #gothic #i

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#i #i write #idea #itself #know

When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.' ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#am #being #control #day #full

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#did #exam #fiction #growing #growing up

I'm very involved in the writing on every level. ↗

— Fran Drescher

#i #involved #level #very #writing

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that. ↗

— Fran Drescher

#could #dresser #had #hair #i

What part of people is resistant to an artist doing more than one thing? Is it somehow perceived as greedy? Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#anyone #artist #become #cook #creative