#writing

English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it. ↗

— Leon Uris

#aspects #born #buy #course #english

When I was writing, I genuinely believed each word was my own. ↗

— Kaavya Viswanathan

#each #genuinely #i #my own #own

The real power of comics is writing as you draw. ↗

— Chris Ware

#draw #power #real #real power #writing

I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time. ↗

— Lalla Ward

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If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. ↗

— Alan Watts

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I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw. ↗

— Len Wein

#done #draw #give #had #i

Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#collaborate #different #jokes #nicely #novels

For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of. ↗

— Terry Southern

#director #named #practically #producer #unheard

Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#any #been #book #different #different way

You don't teach information in a writing workshop. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#teach #workshop #writing #you