#writ

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. ↗

— Jim Henson

#ending #keep #life #like #movie

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#books #clicked #comic #comic book #good

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times. ↗

— Greg Egan

#been #directions #drags #fashionable #flying

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#concept #could #history #humanity #without

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#always #business #everything #how #i

For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country. ↗

— Elin Hilderbrand

#country #course #ended #going #graduate

When all is said and done, I hope people will judge me by who I am, not by what I've written. ↗

— Jack Tate

#writing #life

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it. ↗

— David Guterson

#book #doing #emerge #even #i

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#exotic #foreign #i #i think #interesting

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#both #conscious #ear #head #how