#writing

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

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There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#how #i #i think #making #remember

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter. ↗

— Mel Brooks

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I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#hospital #writing #death

I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film. ↗

— Todd Barry

#cd #film #finish #i #make

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#agree #aspects #even #going #humorous

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#am #book #crusades #dull #i

I had a dream I put my hands inside my chest and held my heart to try to keep it still. ↗

— Mariko Tamaki

#beauty

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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