#writ

I don't think anything you've written is immortal as yet. ↗

— Terence Young

#i #immortal #think #written #yet

One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#bill clinton #clinton #could #disaster #first

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#energy #gives #good #good writing #whatever

The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo. ↗

— John Yoo

#argued #case #considering #corpus #currently

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism. ↗

— Michael York

#bits #degree #done #english #enjoyed

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters. ↗

— Susannah York

#because #becoming #characters #escape #go

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#access #any #art #artist #authentic

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#writers-on-writing

The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions. ↗

— Mark Strand

#many #much #number #people #poems

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#writers-on-writing