#writing

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#being #career #good #good life #good time

I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#build #enjoy #i #just #like

Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming. ↗

— Holly Johnson

#creatively #me #occupation #rewarding #time

Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas. My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be able to talk to actors and understand them, and I don't. It's a very different way of being in the world, and I much prefer writing and producing. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#appeal #being #different #different way #direct

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#get #lie #move #page #shakespeare

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#america #better #especially #get #hard

I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written. ↗

— Kesha

#across #already #constantly #crazy #experiences

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost. ↗

— Kesha

#consider #else #first #foremost #fun

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody. ↗

— Stephen King

#anybody #day #distrust #enough #get

When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#backward #chords #experimenting #favorite #first