#writ

Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#music #writing #humor

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#art #clarity #communication #writing #art

Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#creativity #inspiration #sociology #writing #art

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography. ↗

— Steven Wright

#i #unauthorized #writing

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humor #writing #humor

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze." (Letter to Cynthia Asquith, November 1913) ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#spite #writing #humor

A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure) ↗

— Natsuki Takaya

#kimono #novelists #shigure #writers #humor

At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me. ↗

— David Sedaris

#technology #typewriters #humor

He was a writer and words were his weapons. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#words #writer #humor

You can't edit a blank page. ↗

— Very Wise Anonymous

#truth #wise #writing #humor