#writ

I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence. ↗

— Colin Dexter

#correspondence #day #every #every day #home

Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash. ↗

— Bo Diddley

#check #mouth #tail #write #your

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion. ↗

— Ken Hill

#emotion #i #i write #idea #instead

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#how #i #i do #man #opposition

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#doing #none #outlining #people #planning

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#boston #give #globe #i #i write

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon. ↗

— John Doerr

#clearly #more #now #phenomenon #readers

I feel for Veronica Mars so much when I'm watching at home. It is a wonderful story. The writing is consistently funny, biting, charming, heart-wrenching, etc. I also like the look of it. The cinematography - different from any other show. ↗

— Jason Dohring

#any #biting #charming #cinematography #consistently

My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy. ↗

— John Updike

#artist #creativity #writing #art

The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story. ↗

— Tom Shippey

#fiction #tolkien #tom-shippey #writing #freedom