#writ

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this. ↗

— Bono

#africa #continent #disease #extreme #extreme poverty

People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records. ↗

— Sonny Bono

#got #i #instrument #me #people

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#change #i #i write #instant #kids

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#english #in the past #language #paintbrush #past

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read. ↗

— Susie Bright

#hard #i #i think #in fact #lot

I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#busted #butts #cigarette #drank #floor

I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to perform. I've just initiated the project. That leads the project into creating an independent label outside of game music. ↗

— Nobuo Uematsu

#creating #else #game #game music #i

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#actual #actual process #closely #examining #i

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#forward #good #hard #i #i think

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#man #paid #per #perhaps #piece