#writ

It's what every writer needs: a daybed. ↗

— Vince Flynn

#needs #writer

At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. I hope this isn't too melodramatic or self-centred a way of saying that I attempt to write as if I did not care what reviewers said, what peers thought, or what prevailing opinions may be. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#death #independence #nadine-gordimer #writing #death

I knew that I had to write my memoirs. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#i #knew #memoirs #write

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs. ↗

— Steve Forbert

#i #just #play #songs #trying

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#ever #everybody #find #hand #heard

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#best #done #down #even #failure

I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life. ↗

— Esther Forbes

#becomes #believe #exciting #exciting life #full

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#best #best way #forget #good #good writing

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#always #been #burton #century #francis

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#exhausting #far #i #know #most