#writing

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#also #because #being #believe #career

I listen to music constantly while writing. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#i #listen #music #while #writing

He starts to hum, a haunting melody. No words ride the music, only the familiar notes of a forgotten song. ↗

— A.G. Howard

#beautiful-writing #beauty

I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#writing #love

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#his #however #man #moment #paper

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to. ↗

— Robert Caro

#generally #hours #i #i quit #late

If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled. ↗

— Robert Caro

#bad #bed #been #coming #day

When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way. ↗

— John Zorn

#get #gets #i #i feel #i feel like

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#fond #fond memories #give #i #interesting

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. ↗

— Angela Carter

#book #bring #experience #history #like