#writing

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know? ↗

— Kerry Washington

#always #background #because #been #come

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! ↗

— Bill Watterson

#fog #ideas #impenetrable #inflate #inhibit

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#almost #certain #complete #details #directly

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#lot #terribly #writing

Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#also #course #expect #issues #make

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#direct #direct way #personal #some #way

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you. ↗

— Richard Peck

#writing-from-the-heart #writing-life #life

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#adverse conditions #behaves #conditions #defects #difficult

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#computer #i #i am #intended #interest

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#cocktail #easy #find #hour #i