#writing

It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#hares #market #read #time #tortoise

Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#charge #checks #flying #insane #leaves

In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#am #avoided #dare #fiction #found

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#device #i #i think #kind #projecting

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#exactly #found #how #i #just

In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#am #avoided #dare #fiction #found

The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued... I've been lucky, I guess. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#bonus #cookbooks #ever #general #guess

I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#before #clothes #designer #fashion #friend

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

— Margaret Laurence

#everything #i #jobs #just #mean

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