#writ

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#cheesecake #commissioned #company #get #had

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. ↗

— James A. Michener

#human #human emotions #i #i love #love

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. ↗

— James A. Michener

#experience #great #imagination #like #limited

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#been #felt #head #i #inspired

I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#apologize #because #big #button #comedy

When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we are all having it, that all men behave in the same way and so do all women. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#believe #comedy #confidence #having #men

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. ↗

— Henry Moore

#about #his #job #mistake #needed

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#fast #fiction #moves #ours #science

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#egos #fragile #most #writers

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. ↗

— Alberto Moravia

#composers #good #keep #like #monotonous