#writing

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. ↗

— Socrates

#employ #gain #hard #improving #labored

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#because #fell #i #into #lyric

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#aware #hardest #lyrics #make #music

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#his #just #know #shakespeare #start

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#change #few #few people #happy #i

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#enjoyable #first #last #life #moment

I think my writing is part of my ministry. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#i think #ministry #part #think #writing

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly. ↗

— Scott Speedman

#good #good writing #great #i #lot

I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income. ↗

— George Stephen

#business #depend #developing #devoted #during

Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we'll see whatever happens with that. ↗

— Ethan Suplee

#draft #finally #finished #first #friend