#writing

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past. ↗

— Deborah Norville

#down #go #good #got #life

I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine article. At that time I sent it to Esquire and Playboy, but anyway, I kept writing, and all of sudden I had enough and thought, well maybe it is a book. ↗

— Don Novello

#article #book #enough #esquire #had

In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since. ↗

— Gary Numan

#because #been #before #charts #desperately

Writing is like carrying a fetus. ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#fetus #like #writing

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#because #best #i #i am #i do

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#during #experience #falls #hair #novel

Imagination is Everything! ↗

— Termina Ashton

#imagination #writing #art

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#difficult #original #re-writing #very #writing

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#bathed #comfortably #down #dressed #i

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#behind #car #doing #driving #housework