#writ

I'm an escapist kind of writer. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#i #kind #writer

And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me. ↗

— Larry David

#eventually #i #kept #me #quite

I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it. ↗

— Larry David

#dialogue #eight #everything #going #happen

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#am #bad #been #camp #companions

The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#bull #day #due #fighting #give

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan. ↗

— Chris Daughtry

#down #even #formula #i #just

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific! ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#bits #friends #like #little #little bits

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#basic #basic things #i #music #one thing

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#bartender #book #critic #drunk #good

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#both #despises #enslaved #father #him