#writ

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that. ↗

— Joan Collins

#class #composition #english #essays #first

I always wanted to write as much as perform. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#i #i always #much #perform #wanted

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. ↗

— Shania Twain

#fun #fun thing #i #i do #most

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#disappointment #german #group #hopelessness #i

Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world. ↗

— Pierre Janet

#imagination #literature #mind #surrealism #writing

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#form #me #thinking #writing

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#better #i #knew #my own #name

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us. ↗

— John Deacon

#because #collections #four #group #just

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man. ↗