#writing

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting. ↗

— Ken Hill

#important #important aspect #location #songwriting #very

The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land on it harshly; light would elucidate the most difficult truths; wind would sweep away obtuse padding. ↗

— Gretel Ehrlich

#nature #writing #art

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982. ↗

— J. A. Jance

#down #first #i #long #long time

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. ↗

— Bryan Magee

#basic #behind #curiosity #drive #interest

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

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it. ↗

— Garry Marshall

#better #comes #else #everything #feel

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#childhood #humor #southern-authors #southern-writers #writing

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#book #certain #challenge #chosen #criticize

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