#writing

Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. ↗

— Patrick White

#age #asthma #chiefly #early #efforts

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man. ↗

— Patrick White

#again #began #beginning #called #developed

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#energy #gives #good #good writing #whatever

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism. ↗

— Michael York

#bits #degree #done #english #enjoyed

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters. ↗

— Susannah York

#because #becoming #characters #escape #go

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#writers-on-writing

The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions. ↗

— Mark Strand

#many #much #number #people #poems

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#writers-on-writing

The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#change #consideration #courage #forget #just

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#writing #addiction