#writ

With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me. ↗

— George R. R. Martin

#am #bad #book #director #effects

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached. ↗

— Judith Martin

#attached #directions #libraries #need #rest

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#ask #close #drama #even #human

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work. ↗

— James McBride

#first #how #know #make #narrative

I don't want to write, I'd rather draw. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#i #rather #want #write

I sort of try to write everything for me. I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I'm trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they're accessible to everyone. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#ago #bowls #everyone #everything #fan

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#except #i #mean #never #poetry

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#bugged #burglars #caught #clues #concrete

The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#book #had #i #joy #longer

I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#brought #different #glad #had #hard