#writ

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it. ↗

— William H. Macy

#decide #i #like #me #pay

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror. ↗

— William H. Macy

#horror #ironic #king #lot #more

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#doubts #his #own #questions #story

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#i #i am #symphonies #way #weren

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class. ↗

— Jena Malone

#children #class #draw #great #great ideas

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#any #earth #food #i #i do

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching. ↗

— Albert Maltz

#attempts #became #by the time #college #discrimination

I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing. ↗

— David Mamet

#back #coming #could #day #drawback

I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer. ↗

— David Mamet

#ask #gag #guy #i #politics

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions. ↗

— David Mamet

#inappropriate #influenced #job #novel #opinion