#writ

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#i #i think #itself #life #myself

I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#books #compel #day #different #distinctly

Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#felt #finished #had #hard #i

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#book #diary #during #emotions #form

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#clever #crude #enough #genius #girl

If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#ever #i #last #leave #me

I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing. ↗

— William H. Macy

#emmy #i #i think #meant #most

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#boundaries #confused #contexts #genre #had

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#anymore #begin #haven #i #order

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#artist #artists #connects #example #father