#writ

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#basic #basic research #doing #get #i

It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are? ↗

— Lyle Lovett

#easier #happy #hear #how #lot

As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#black music #interest #music #only #our

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. ↗

— Martin Luther

#also #bible #clouds #flowers #god

And that's what I've learned too: writing is key. ↗

— Trish Stratus

#key #learned #too #writing

Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#had #i #me #never #number

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#achieving #blessed #clarity #cursed #documenting

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#felt #go #gut #hit #mean

Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble. ↗

— Melissa McCarthy

#once #start #trouble #visually #writing

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot. ↗

— L. Sprague de Camp

#child #deformed #dismay #face #heard