#writing

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#only #our #posterity #riches #squander

When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs. ↗

— Margaret Laurence

#everything #i #jobs #just #mean

The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control. ↗

— Jerome Lawrence

#appalled #control #inherit #inspired #many

And if you have great writing, it's really easy, but if it's not so great and you have to work a little harder, I could tell where the work needed to be done but comedy is just fun. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#could #done #easy #fun #great

When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#freeing #really #trust #very #writing

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing. ↗

— Denis Leary

#feel #good #good writing #great #like

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts. ↗

— David Leavitt

#artist #ball #bouncing #boy #competitive

Shake was a dramatist of note; He lived by writing things to quote. ↗

— H. C. Bunner

#lived #note #quote #shake #things

I don't care about writing really. ↗

— Ang Lee

#care #i #really #writing

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#beasts #demons #heroic #i #like