#writ

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. ↗

— Charles Davenport

#custom #even #keep #kings #law

What I want is to be the highest grossing screenwriter, or to have some other woman be the highest grossing screenwriter, instead of being number nine on the list. That's my goal. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#goal #highest #i #instead #list

They're pretty particular about what they show. They certainly edit the scripts and have conversations with the writers about what they are and aren't willing to portray. But the writers and the network are pretty much on the same page. ↗

— James Denton

#certainly #conversations #edit #much #network

My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#brenda #everything #family #great #great writer

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy. ↗

— Anita Desai

#best #could #doing #ever #first

The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim. ↗

— George Saunders

#breaking #chances #gets #habits #limited

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#beliefs #how #i #people #shift

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

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Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#advertising #agencies #criticism #happens #ignorance

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#goodness #make #only #readable #sense