#writ

I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#bit #childhood #ella #i #i write

I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle! ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#anyone #because #doing #even #evolving

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#art #beautiful #concentrated #effort #enough

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#book #english #english teacher #going #had

I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#early #huge #huge influence #i #influence

It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time. ↗

— Philip Dunne

#beautiful #easy #england #italy #living

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#even #foreign #foreign country #like #men

... All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive me, when I want to stretch my faculties on a book, to seek it in that happy age ... when the writer used both sides of his mind [the male and female sides of his mind] equally. One must turn back to Shakespeare then, for Shakespeare was androgynous; and so were Keats and Sterne and Cowper and Lamb and Coleridge. Shelley perhaps was sexless. Milton and Ben Jonson had a dash too much of the male in them. So had Wordsworth and Tolstoy. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#keats #mind #shakespeare #writing #age

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#absolutely #anybody #anything #bad #be true

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on. ↗

— Buddy Ebsen

#increases #limits #long #paper #value