#writing

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#before #capable #come #decades #drawer

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time. ↗

— Robert Graves

#idea #me #money #never #person

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#because #disability #fingers #handwriting #hit

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer. ↗

— John Green

#cancer #creatures #easy #either #else

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#actually #else #give #i #i think

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. ↗

— Graham Greene

#escape #fear #form #how #human

I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall. ↗

— Bruce Greenwood

#another #basic #doing #feeling #film

It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#always #boring #i #i remember #just

I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record. ↗

— Zane Grey

#did #during #i #record #spell

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing. ↗

— Zane Grey

#had #me #muddle #writing