#writ

It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#alone #ask #collaborate #cuz #done

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#exaggeration #good #good things #in the past #like

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#comes #famous #giving #good #good advice

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody. ↗

— Peter Bichsel

#i #i am #knew #nobody #novel

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language. ↗

— Peter Bichsel

#themselves #writers

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#much #over #papers #rubbish #up

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#after #could #few #given #masses

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#black #fact #facts #fiction #fictional

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#apart #before #behind #double #everything

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in. ↗

— David Bowie

#i #input #interesting #interpretations #lot