#writing

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way. ↗

— Colin Hay

#anyone #connection #doubt #else #fancied

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#directing #frustrating #heaven #hell #producing

The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#fire #juniper #nature #nature-writing #equality

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi. ↗

— Beth Henley

#alone #christmas #class #dime #i

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#decline #i #know #mine #movies

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors. ↗

— Ken Hill

#authors #being #best #brain #everyone

Yeah, writers do hate writing. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#writers #writing #yeah

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#because #began #book #felt #i

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs. ↗

— Shannon Hoon

#i #really #songs #therapeutic #value

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. ↗