#writer

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#capacity #creative #factual #fictional #lasting

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do. ↗

— Richard Price

#arts #because #choice #does #feel

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#must #perhaps #then #would #write

Nothing would make me happier if Peter Falk would finally win his Oscar for this. Not just as the writer but as a fan and a friend. It would be so great. ↗

— Paul Reiser

#fan #finally #friend #great #happier

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes. ↗

— David Remnick

#beautiful #beauty #broadcaster #caravan #comes

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible. ↗

— Anne Rice

#everything #impossible #know #obviously #she

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well. ↗

— Anne Rice

#each #know #list #look #new

Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it. ↗

— Buddy Rice

#comedy #could #get #hardly #hour

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials. ↗

— Mordecai Richler

#canada #coming #credentials #i #impeccable

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab. ↗

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

#colorful #drab #his #itself #life