#writ

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#am #anything #because #dreadful #fiction

When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people. ↗

— Bruce Dickinson

#i #i write #maiden #only #outside

I lived the stuff that Jackie Collins writes about. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#collins #i #jackie #lived #stuff

I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#am #come #comes #enough #good

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. ↗

— Joan Didion

#i think #irritation #lead #life #people

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. ↗

— Joan Didion

#fear #find #i #i see #i write

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that. ↗

— Joan Didion

#always #around #been #before #big

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing. ↗

— Joan Didion

#except #first #i #just #makes

I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter. ↗

— Joan Didion

#i #right #tiny #totally #typewriter

It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade. ↗

— Joan Didion

#after #anyway #before #begun #berkeley