#writing

I feel like the books were just written like a movie. You read it and you can just kind of see everything. Before I went in to read with the director, I read the first book and I loved it. I didn't realize how good the writing was. And then I went in and read with Gary Ross, and that was it. ↗

— Liam Hemsworth

#book #books #director #everything #feel

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

The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera. ↗

— Ken Hensley

#another #another way #band #career #i

Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people. ↗

— William Styron

#nameless #people #perpetually #scared #therapy

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#cuba #especially #fascinating #get #great

I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically. ↗

— James Herriot

#come #fact #i #i think #just

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#get #i #keep #love #really

It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#absorb #desire #fad #fault #his

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#cleverness #good #patience #thinking #writing

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#course #different #drop #every #everybody