#writ

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#funny #like #love #pressured #prose

I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#back #being #emotion #goes #i

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#alone #forced #know #long #lose

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist. ↗

— Christopher McQuarrie

#novelist #old #originally #time #wanted

I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano. ↗

— Jayne Meadows

#i #music #piano #play #write

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#academics #among #dead #favor #males

I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence. ↗

— John Metcalf

#approach #become #committed #excellence #gathering

As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos. ↗

— Nicholas Meyer

#control #director #egos #everything #give

I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#bad #bad guys #characters #community #everybody

No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#actually #because #bit #different #enjoy