#writ

People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him. ↗

— Tom Felton

#because #books #character #defined #few

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term. ↗

— Robert Caro

#believe #clear #deepest #highest #history

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works. ↗

— Robert Caro

#being #biographies #book #books #doing

And George Farr had the town, the earth, the world to himself and his sorrow. Music came faint as a troubling rumor beneath the spring night, sweetened by distance: a longing knowing no ease. (Oh God, oh God!) At last George Farr gave up trying to see her. He had 'phoned vainly and time after time, at last the telephone became the end in place of the means: he had forgotten why he wanted to reach her. Finally he told himself that he hated her, that he would go away; finally he was going to as much pains to avoid her as he had been to see her. So he slunk about the streets like a criminal, avoiding her, feeling his his very heart stop when he did occasionally see her unmistakable body from a distance. And at night he lay sleepless and writhing to think of her, then to rise and don a few garments and walk past her darkened house, gazing in slow misery at the room in which he knew she lay, soft and warm, in intimate slumber, then to return to home and bed to dream of her brokenly. ↗

— William Faulkner

#writing #dreams

If I can't write it would be as if I died. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#i #would #write

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast. ↗

— Robert Caro

#fast #i #i write #nobody #very

When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#adult #became #began #boy #dreamed

When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#familiar #safe #something #stereotyped #very

How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny? ↗

— Ferdowsi

#escape #flee #his #how #man

'The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative. ↗

— Jane Campion

#adult #attempted #big #complex #easily