#writing

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before. ↗

— Arthur Hailey

#also #been #before #began #did

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

#great #historical #knowledge #literature #people

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 never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station. ↗

— John Irving

#finish #i #i am #know #never

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#conscious #conscious thought #esquire #i #scholar

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme. ↗

— Diane Johnson

#already #apparent #becomes #deepening #end

I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation. ↗

— R. Kelly

#just #notice #people #real #situation

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#inspirational #writing #attitude

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human. ↗

— Shirley Knight

#human #i #learning #one-woman #show

I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police. ↗

— Steig Larsson

#call #come #everybody #fail #gets