#writ

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really. ↗

— Iain Banks

#double #really #say #saying #skill

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work. ↗

— Russell Banks

#attention #become #dedicate #discipline #hanging

One problem was that my direct testimony was in writing, so a lot of people didn't get to see it. I hope they see it, because I think it built a very strong case. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#built #case #direct #get #hope

But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines. ↗

— Majel Barrett

#early #going #gun #head #knew

When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group. ↗

— Syd Barrett

#group #had #i #leaving #out

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know. ↗

— Gene Barry

#attitude #creates #given #guess #guys

But I don't write about sex for today's teenagers. Or Doc Martens boots either. I'm more interested in exploring how exactly the world is run, which doesn't really change that much from one generation to another. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#another #boots #change #either #exactly

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#earth #else #god #music #nothing

I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#again #book #comeback #got #i

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write. ↗

— Mary Archer

#good #i #plenty #prison #rather