#writ

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#fiction #i #like #more #nonfiction

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes. ↗

— Billy West

#celestial #could #everybody #had #jokes

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#complete #family #friends #must #natural

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. ↗

— Kanye West

#just be #novels #people #self-absorbed #sometimes

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people. ↗

— Morris West

#always #enough #i #interest #interests

Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great. ↗

— Randy West

#argue #could #easily #first #game

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. ↗

— Rebecca West

#between #different #different parts #mind #nothing

I write books to find out about things. ↗

— Rebecca West

#books #find #i #i write #out

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs. ↗

— Rebecca West

#affairs #anybody #biography #considers #difficult

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. ↗

— Timothy West

#classes #classical #elizabethan #how #live