#writ

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer. ↗

— Len Deighton

#book #even #intention #politicians #professional

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#inexplicable #loneliness #tries #utter #writer

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies. ↗

— Carl Van Doren

#first #long #long run #nowhere #rest

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet. ↗

— David Duchovny

#i #myself #poet #poetry #still

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#best #betraying #letters #love #love letters

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited. ↗

— Steve Earle

#english #form #guys #imitating #italian

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#friendly #i #i can #like #only

Why the hell can't people just write nice happy stories about people having happy sex? That's what I want, and I bet a whole bunch of other people want it too. ↗

— Phil Foglio

#bet #bunch #happy #having #hell

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#divided #least #life #my life #performing

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#alive #come #happened #i #make