#writing

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#anything #back #better #far #i

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#like #lives #many #people #satisfaction

Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#book #books #collaborating #embarrassment #i

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#must #novel #person #writing

He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes. ↗

— Linda McCartney

#all day #arrogant #brilliant #coming #day

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#important #melancholy #nothing #writers #writing

It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life being angry. ↗

— Stella McCartney

#angry #being #crap #i #immoral

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other. ↗

— John McGahern

#completely #exist #i #i see #i think

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#contradictory #find #full #however #i

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#correspondence #i #letters #like #lost