#writ

Easy reading is damn hard writing. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#easy #easy reading #hard #reading #writing

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#ends #family #first #friends #gratification

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way. ↗

— Colin Hay

#anyone #connection #doubt #else #fancied

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion. ↗

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

#experiences #many #own #promotion #publicity

I've written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental. ↗

— Tom Hayden

#course #gangs #i #taught #written

So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#give #go #i #keep #like

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#directing #frustrating #heaven #hell #producing

The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#fire #juniper #nature #nature-writing #equality

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#being #being there #blank #feeling #ink

I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and measure my body fat. It wasn't a healthy way to live. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#body fat #certain #certain time #day #down