#writing

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#connects #interests #me #might #place

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#am #authority #bbc #british #chairman

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#am #any #i #i am #kids

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. ↗

— Clarence Day

#reading #thinking #well #writing

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#frankly #get #living #lot #make

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#go #i #like #poetry #such

I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#challenge #concise #form #i #important

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#basic #command #craftsman #know #language

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#admire #best #best way #learn #other

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#easy #fun #law #lot #more