#writing

I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps. ↗

— Leon Uris

#book #corps #first #i #marine

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#writing-craft #life

I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually. ↗

— Chris Colfer

#actually #creative #good #i #i can

I do a lot of screen re-writing. ↗

— Bruce Vilanch

#i do #lot #re-writing #screen

The genesis of my interest in being a writer can be traced to fourth grade when we listened to a radio production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and I asked the teacher if I could rewrite it for our class to present. Nothing like going head-to-head with the Bard, right? I can still visualise the pages I filled creating this first "great" literary endeavor. Encouraged by teachers (and one doting grandmother), I went on to write reams of yearbook copy in high school and college and, then, to teach high school English. My "real" writing career didn't begin until I turned from education to the full-time pursuit of storytelling. ↗

— Laura Abbot

#education

If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#education

Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place. ↗

— Ville Valo

#back #been #get #got #had

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#books #create #i #illustrating #kid

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#books #committee #decisions #deferring #instead

Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#around #break #clear #even #go