#writing

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#bit #child #dinner #dinner table #directing

What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#acceptable #anxieties #correct #i #john

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#adolescence #eleven #great #had #i

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#children #i #i am #novel #second

Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#book #books #collaborating #embarrassment #i

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#must #novel #person #writing

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#distasteful #me #money #people #speak

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer? ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#challenge #doctor #get #heard #i

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning. ↗

— James McBride

#fat #getting #me #meaning #out

That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#after #believing #could #does #down