#writing

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#back #been #career #had #i

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#fiction writer #i #i think #nonfiction #novel

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#lightning #like #only #regret #terribly

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance. ↗

— John Entwistle

#book #i #i am #importance #place

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy. ↗

— Enya

#emotional #make #melody #moment #success

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from. ↗

— Enya

#anything #change #comes #life #lot

I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#bedroom #bought #distracted #end #exposed

As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#going #i #maybe #me #other

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music. ↗

— Tim Finn

#big success #conscious #create #follow #gets

The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about. ↗

— Nana Visitor

#am #i #i am #i see #name