#writing

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#courses #creative #creative writing #english #english major

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#biggest #forward #i #i can #keep

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#bit #forward #go #ironing #like

I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science. ↗

— Poul Anderson

#been #biological #book #certain #completely

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve. ↗

— Jane Asher

#always #because #could #definition #feel

Writing that's not working for a living. ↗

— Robert Asprin

#working #writing

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing. ↗

— Mackenzie Astin

#better time #directing #films #i #i think

I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes. ↗

— Dave Attell

#comics #i #joke #jokes #like

I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it. ↗

— Carl Barks

#been #beings #caricature #describes #ducks

Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way. ↗

— Beck

#appropriate #come #digest #distill #eight