#writing

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#background #calculations #close #close attention #doing

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am. ↗

— Erica Jong

#calculated #expresses #i #i am #i think

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper. ↗

— Erica Jong

#cheaper #declining #i #i think #life

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge. ↗

— Erica Jong

#battlefield #bedroom #category #class #feeling

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#book #same #solitary #thing #very

Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas. My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be able to talk to actors and understand them, and I don't. It's a very different way of being in the world, and I much prefer writing and producing. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#appeal #being #different #different way #direct

That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#doing #done #good #i #know

I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in he just takes. There's a scene in 'Eclipse' where Bella tells him she's a virgin, and it's the funniest, most awkward scene I've ever seen on film. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#billy #character #charlie #eclipse #ever

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me. ↗

— David E. Kelley

#easily #feel #good #good sign #laboring

To become a writer a person must read constantly, the more varied the writers and their material then all the better. One must also have a lot of life experience, travel to exotic locations and live among the local people. Yet most importantly a writer needs the determination to keep at their writing regardless of what others might say or think about it ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

#diversity #living-life-to-the-fullest #travel #writing #experience