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The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. ↗

— Herman Wouk

#fiction #imaginative #income #income tax #only

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it. ↗

— Gene Wilder

#get #i #i can #i write #know

The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you're a kid, seven or eight years old, and you're looking at the world around you - everything seems black or white, good or bad. ↗

— John Wozniak

#bad #black #black or white #cause #character

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#had #i #laid #like #made

I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly. ↗

— Fay Wray

#care #close #comes #enthusiastic #everything

I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all. ↗

— Fay Wray

#anything #ask #days #early #films

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it. ↗

— Gary Wright

#copy #download #free #hard #hard work

George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique. ↗

— Gary Wright

#creative #creative people #dear #dear friend #decorated

And once upon a time I wondered: Is writing epic fantasy not somehow a betrayal? Did I not somehow do a disservice to my own reality by paying so much attention to the power fantasies of disenchanted white men? But. Epic fantasy is not merely what Tolkien made it. This genre is rooted in the epic — and the truth is that there are plenty of epics out there which feature people like me. Sundiata’s badass mother. Dihya, warrior queen of the Amazighs. The Rain Queens. The Mino Warriors. Hatshepsut’s reign. Everything Harriet Tubman ever did. And more, so much more, just within the African components of my heritage. I haven’t even begun to explore the non-African stuff. So given all these myths, all these examinations of the possible… how can I not imagine more? How can I not envision an epic set somewhere other than medieval England, about someone other than an awkward white boy? How can I not use every building-block of my history and heritage and imagination when I make shit up? And how dare I disrespect that history, profane all my ancestors’ suffering and struggles, by giving up the freedom to imagine that they’ve won for me. ↗

— N.K. Jemisin

#history #tolkien #writing-while-black #freedom

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#breakup #easy #far #i #i can