#writes

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#another #ceiling #could #cross #down

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try. ↗

— David Sedaris

#connor #dialect #even #should #than

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. ↗

— Martin Luther

#also #bible #clouds #flowers #god

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#length #makes #observations #out #talent

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered. ↗

— Peter Davison

#poems #reason #remembered #will #writes

I lived the stuff that Jackie Collins writes about. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#collins #i #jackie #lived #stuff

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity. ↗

— Beatrice Webb

#diary #discover #identity #mysterious #own

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#billion #century #end #environmental #had

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#felt #hasn #many #selves #separate

Yes, I did some rewrites of the show as some of the stuff was not very good and I worked my butt off to make it something that the audience liked and that I could be proud of. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#could #did #good #i #liked