#writing

As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become... ↗

— Joan Didion

#life

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#dining #dining room #happy #i #room

Painting and writing are solitary arts. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#painting #solitary #writing

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#created #i #illusion #literacy #reading

I was an angst-y journal writing kid. ↗

— Justin Halpern

#journal #kid #writing

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#drudgery #escape #every #every day #i

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#fiction #i #interested #more #not interested

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#good #how #i #immediately #knew

For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change. ↗

— John Hawkes

#amazing #amazing people #attracted #change #character

If I did anything 'next,' I would do writing. ↗

— Ellen Muth

#did #i #next #would #writing