#writ

When I was writing, I genuinely believed each word was my own. ↗

— Kaavya Viswanathan

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I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#assassinations #attended #dedication #discovered #each

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#never #percent #probably #screen #things

The real power of comics is writing as you draw. ↗

— Chris Ware

#draw #power #real #real power #writing

I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time. ↗

— Lalla Ward

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If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. ↗

— Alan Watts

#appear #find #paradoxes #particularly #study

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#any #attention #inches #just #measure

All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written. ↗

— Peter Warlock

#alive #date #good #good music #music

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago. ↗

— Peter Warlock

#already #centuries #modern #more #much

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin. ↗

— Emma Watson

#i #learn #mandolin #novel #play