#write

It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#beyond #book #case #darkness #discovering

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#out #reader #responsibility #somehow #story

It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction. ↗

— Jerry Only

#first #first step #i #misfits #original

I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#butter #fact #few #fingerprints #get

It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#did #how #just #life #live

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#college #effect #except #flunked #gone

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#had #i #just #painful #say

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#down #i #ideas #know #long

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#competition #i #need #people #starting

It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great. ↗

— Trey Parker

#every #great #i #i love #knows