#writ

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#clear #efficient #good #keep #language

To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. ↗

— Enoch Powell

#diary #every #every day #like #own

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted. ↗

— Richard Powers

#economy #eyes #makes #market #market economy

My first in, my first break, was I met a director and got to talking with her, and she happened to be casting this movie that she had written. That was ten years ago. That got me to Hollywood. I got paid $700 bucks. ↗

— Chris Pratt

#break #bucks #casting #director #first

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. ↗

— Graham Greene

#life #therapy #writing #life

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ. ↗

— Woody Allen

#life #writing #life

I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#goes #gospel #i #i write #inform

There are no tips for life neither for travelling ↗

— Guido Colombo

#travel #travel-writing #life

You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye. ↗

— Charlotte Rae

#minutes #producers #public #show #take

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters. ↗

— A. Lee Martinez

#writers #writers-on-writing #writing-life #life