#writing

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#get #lie #move #page #shakespeare

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#america #better #especially #get #hard

I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written. ↗

— Kesha

#across #already #constantly #crazy #experiences

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost. ↗

— Kesha

#consider #else #first #foremost #fun

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody. ↗

— Stephen King

#anybody #day #distrust #enough #get

When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#backward #chords #experimenting #favorite #first

I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book. ↗

— Sally Kirkland

#book #get #great #i #some

I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look. ↗

— Robert Kirkman

#how #i #look #picture #things

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious. ↗

— Richard Russo

#disingenuous #frequently #hilarious #humor #i

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long. ↗

— Richard Russo

#because #books #caring #character #going