#write

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

#experiences #exposed #groundwork #life #often

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man. ↗

— James Harrington

#army #cannon #cold #cold iron #earth

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#difficulty #eastern #exactly #kind #poet

Every writer I know has trouble writing. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#i #know #trouble #writer #writing

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#always #business #everything #how #i

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#before #change #dramatic #dramatic change #enormously

I was notified on July 17 to be ready to start August 7 for an October air date. When we reached the screen we did not have a single segment ready. It was done so fast the writers never got a chance to know what it was all about. ↗

— Jeffrey Hunter

#air #august #chance #date #did

We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#arab world #intellectuals #internationally #loved #many

It just happens I write fast and always have done. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#done #fast #happens #i #i write

You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way. ↗

— William Kraft

#down #else #feel #hope #never