#writ

I always wanted to be a writer. ↗

— Jung Chang

#i #i always #wanted #writer

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars. ↗

— Chevy Chase

#makes #media #press #stars #television

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#defeat #itself #life #love #lover

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#read #seen #should #sight #writers

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing. ↗

— Rosanne Cash

#i #impossible #me #really #sing

It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#around #come #decided #find #hard

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#being #cartoon #dark #decent #decent people

Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up - that stuff is very similar. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#crap #different #doing #except #faster

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. ↗

— Willa Cather

#age #basic #before #fifteen #material

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. ↗

— Willa Cather

#artist #best #character #creative #deepest