#write

I'm a much better writer for being a father. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#better #father #i #much #writer

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#great #great discovery #literary #literary men #literature

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works. ↗

— Robert Caro

#being #biographies #book #books #doing

If I can't write it would be as if I died. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#i #would #write

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast. ↗

— Robert Caro

#fast #i #i write #nobody #very

When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#adult #became #began #boy #dreamed

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#face #fiction #fiction writer #grew #had

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul. ↗

— Emily Carr

#be careful #careful #know #own #paint

Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives. ↗

— John le Carre

#certainly #good #got #haven #i

I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#comedian #find #funny #happen #i