#writing

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve. ↗

— Jane Asher

#always #because #could #definition #feel

Writing that's not working for a living. ↗

— Robert Asprin

#working #writing

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing. ↗

— Mackenzie Astin

#better time #directing #films #i #i think

I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes. ↗

— Dave Attell

#comics #i #joke #jokes #like

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#purpose #raw-materia #writing #art

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing. ↗

— Xander Berkeley

#because #direct #done #films #i

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all of the tricks and has nothing to say. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#art

Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way. ↗

— Beck

#appropriate #come #digest #distill #eight

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#else #matters #nothing #nothing matters #silence

I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#because #consumed #disgusting #film #going