#writing

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. ↗

— Stephen King

#norms #politeness #reading #society #writing

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#i love #love #making #music #records

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#close #does #doing #doing good #fact

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself. ↗

— Travis Tritt

#crawl #dog #every #having #house

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#easily #way #well #writing

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

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#because #casually #cost #expected #had

I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#comfortable #i #just #much #myself

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard. ↗

— David Walliams

#afternoon #book #children #could #hard

When it comes to the recording and writing, it's still mostly Mickey and I. But now there's this whole live entity that's a whole different thing, and it seems to be where we're gaining the most popularity. ↗

— Gene Ween

#different #different thing #entity #gaining #i