#write

You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like we depend on writers, we depend on producers, directors depend on us and once things are in the divine order as they happen. ↗

— Nia Long

#depend #directors #divine #happen #like

So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother's house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write. ↗

— George Lopez

#beach #day #desk #eight #grandmother

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#any #black #circles #condemned #destructive

I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs. ↗

— Mike Lowry

#i #i think #lot #much #never

We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way. ↗

— Mike Lowry

#experimental #songs #wanted #way #write

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#both #ears #english #few #matters

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. ↗

— Henry R. Luce

#balance sheets #cannot #men #poetry #read

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

#book #childhood #down #i #know

The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location. ↗

— James MacArthur

#allowed #did #even #first #location

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#free #give #good #i #incentive