#writ

I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing. ↗

— Donald McKay

#begin #challenging #dialectical #down #fast

Before cruelly vilifying them from a great height, the mudslingers at newspapers and journals should bear in mind that all artistic endeavors were by and large a mixture of effort and imagination, the embodiment of a solitary endeavor, of a sometimes long-nurtured dream, when they were not a desperate bid to give life meaning. ↗

— Félix J. Palma

#writers-on-writing #dreams

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#writing #fearless

By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit. ↗

— John Newcombe

#because #bit #by the time #certainly #foot

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas. ↗

— Helmut Newton

#before #books #down #everything #forget

Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music. ↗

— Skitch Henderson

#any #being #budget #carnegie #carnegie hall

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#newsroom #only #unemployment #writer

In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed. ↗

— Alger Hiss

#carry #chambers #disclosed #forgery #future

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to. ↗

— David E. Kelley

#i think #loves #people #relates #should

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time. ↗