#writer

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#become #better #travel #writer #writing

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#i #loves #somebody #still #travel

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer. ↗

— Bruce Campbell

#any #end #how #react #scene

So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merely celebrate a beauty but create one; that yours is love that brings it own birth with it, just as Plato has declared, and that you should therefore give up the blue things of this world in favor of the words which say them ↗

— William H. Gass

#writing #beauty

Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#first #ground #ideas #important #magazines

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#first #ground #i #ideas #important

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. ↗

— John le Carre

#experience #his #like #lives #mainstream

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#about #dreamers #talk #write #writers

This writer, and all others of his stamp, should remember that the colonies are now in a state of revolt and rebellion against their rightful sovereign. ↗

— James Chalmers

#colonies #his #now #others #rebellion

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#american film #american writers #directors #every #every time