#writ

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#constantly #discovered #encounter #feel #feeling

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#fairy #fairy tales #i #left #picture

All you have to do is choose the right day, the right weather, and you come upon a hidden place in the morning light where time stopped long before you were born ↗

— John Burnside

#time #beauty

I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts on my phone. And I have a notebook by my bedside so I can write down any last-minute ideas. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#any #bedside #blackberry #calendar #down

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#fit #group #rather #records #seeing

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#fiction #i #learned #me #parts

Townes van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that. ↗

— Steve Earle

#bob #boots #coffee #coffee table #cowboy

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely. ↗

— Greg Egan

#book #boom #easier #edition #first

I've been taking longer to write stories lately. ↗

— Greg Egan

#i #lately #longer #stories #taking

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph. ↗

— Robert Emmet

#inscription #man #tomb #upon #write