#writ

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges. ↗

— Bob Barr

#argue #challenges #difficult #impossible #intelligence

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them. ↗

— Syd Barrett

#i #i do #like #lines #other

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#acting #bubbling #company #constantly #director

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#already #any #betray #cause #cost

It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity. ↗

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

#activity #circumstances #general #his #ideas

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#based #forgotten #good #good reason #happened

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired. ↗

— Greg Bear

#also #brilliant #charming #could #friendship

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. ↗

— Pierre Beaumarchais

#am #anything #free #government #i

Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way. ↗

— Beck

#appropriate #come #digest #distill #eight

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#else #matters #nothing #nothing matters #silence