#writ

It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen. ↗

— William Bernbach

#communicator #concerned #gets #his #how

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself. ↗

— Elmer Bernstein

#changes #compete #date #hard #i

I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#alice #alice cooper #big #cooper #disasters

Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains. ↗

— Joe Biden

#back #banks #big #budget #chains

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#drink #others #some #take #writers

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#i #lot #moon #nowhere #view

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do. ↗

— Robert Kirkman

#enough #everybody #exactly #good #i

I write best when "I" am not writing. ↗

— Girish Kohli

#writing #art

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears ↗

— Neil Postman

#age

In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#fire #imagination #middle-ages #obviousness #writing