#writes

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#even #feel #get #himself #need

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#biography #impossible #matter #objectivity #perfect

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#back #book #comes #doing #goes

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#against #campaign #campaigns #comparative #devising

Everything that originates from God will endure the test of time. Therefore, it is good to check out the origins of everything to make sure they were started by God. ↗

— Eric Ludy

#leslie-ludy #when-god-writes-your-love-story #love

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. ↗

— Harold Ross

#back #day #few #filled #his

No person writes to win awards. ↗

— Mo Yan

#person #win #writes

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. ↗

— Leon Edel

#fade #his #house #inner #into

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#because #cannot #i #i write #loves

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#anywhere #could #does #go #living