#write

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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If you are a young writer today, it's very hard. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#today #very #writer #you #young

I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go. ↗

— Emmanuel Lewis

#go #i #learning #produce #want

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#ambition #book #going #happens #least

The way to write is well, and how is your own business. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#how #own #way #well #write

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#because #i #i write #musicians #together

I didn't write anything until I was well over 30. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#i #over #until #well #write

I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#been #century #change #dictated #historian

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free. ↗

— David Lloyd

#artists #create #escaping #few #free

But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not take advantage of that, especially if you can do something that's entertaining as well. I've done a number of things like that over the years. ↗

— David Lloyd

#artist #crazy #done #entertaining #especially