#writing

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier. ↗

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

#directing #gratifying #happier #i #incredibly

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#anymore #begin #haven #i #order

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#again #back #came #comes #energy

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home. ↗

— Philip Levine

#because #extraordinary #home #i #i think

Every writer has to find their own way into writing. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#find #into #own #their #way

What would life be like without her writing? Writing filled her life with beauty and mystery, gave it life...and promise. ↗

— Maud Hart Lovelace

#writing #beauty

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#appetite #apprenticeship #check #enough #first

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#accumulate #allotted #anything #appetite #down

I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#writing #men

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#i #i think #link #order #preserve