#writes

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#comedy #funny #god #how #know

So, my sweetheart back home writes to me and wants to know what this gal in Bombay's got that she hasn't got. So I just write back to her and says, Nothin', honey. Only she's got it here. ↗

— Alvah Bessie

#bombay #gal #got #hasn #her

What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#course #each #end #first #first of all

As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'. ↗

— Tom Skerritt

#me #once #rewrites #told #very

And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#blogs #care #haven #i #interesting

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#end #end product #every #generation #history

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#any #deadline #express #ideas #improved

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#autobiography #book #boring #details #full

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. ↗

— Alfred Kazin

#make #minds #oneself #others #paper

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#his #little #lives #nature #nothing