#writing

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#experiences #far #fiction #fiction writers #however

When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs. ↗

— Margaret Laurence

#everything #i #jobs #just #mean

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing. ↗

— Denis Leary

#feel #good #good writing #great #like

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts. ↗

— David Leavitt

#artist #ball #bouncing #boy #competitive

Shake was a dramatist of note; He lived by writing things to quote. ↗

— H. C. Bunner

#lived #note #quote #shake #things

I don't care about writing really. ↗

— Ang Lee

#care #i #really #writing

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#beasts #demons #heroic #i #like

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#directing #herring #i #just #might

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#certain #experiment #favorites #go #i

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#business #cut #lonely #lonely business #memories