#writing

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#always #aspects #be different #because #being

I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them. ↗

— David Maraniss

#actually #after #although #bill #bill clinton

I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself. ↗

— Mary Matalin

#books #comes #complete #herself #i

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines? ↗

— Walter Matthau

#book #did #finished #just #porcupines

I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently. ↗

— Don Mattingly

#change #differently #head #i #i write

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#writing #inspirational

The outstanding people realized that the job involved more than just writing a good strategic plan. It was also important that top management should understand the plan and be prepared to adopt it. ↗

— David C. McClelland

#also #be prepared #good #important #involved

Be Visionary ... ↗

— R.M. Engelhardt

#be-visionary #ny #poetry #qoutes-on-writing #r-m-engelhardt

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage. ↗

— Robert McNamara

#any #computer #does #judgment #literacy

While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind. ↗

— Christopher McQuarrie

#films #i #mind #never #put