#writ

For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#down #i #i always #me #notebook

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#get #half #i #i write #into

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#best way #book #get #i #intrigued

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. ↗

— Rex Stout

#ball #ball game #ballplayers #detective #detective stories

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#company #every #everyday #formal #men

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe. ↗

— Elizabeth George

#around #attempt #critics #decided #globe

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#after #argument #been #case #could

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#become #character #first-person #i #like

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#fiction #get #i #i think #i write

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.' ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#back #down #drawn #falling #falling in love