#writ

There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you. ↗

— Michael Nyman

#collaborate #duration #else #film #free

It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children's point of view. ↗

— Michael Nyqvist

#actually #adopted #become #book #children

President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#book #bush #clinton #deal #get

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul. ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#live #mind #really #soul #writers

Writing is like carrying a fetus. ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#fetus #like #writing

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. ↗

— Kate O'Brien

#enough #everywhere #go #i #i think

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood. ↗

— Richard O'Brien

#get #good #good deal #hollywood #never

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#attachment #concerned #even #fiction #fiction writer

There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#i #nothing #past #recent #recent past

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#been #best #could #enough #everywhere