#writing

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#happens #helps #i #just #matter

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#ray-bradbury #trash #treasure #writing #art

For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together. ↗

— Reba McEntire

#chemistry #get-go #got #great #just

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist. ↗

— Christopher McQuarrie

#novelist #old #originally #time #wanted

I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing. ↗

— Larry Norman

#because #doing #function #i #i am

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you. ↗

— Marsha Norman

#book #dreams #illustrations #soul #writing

I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine article. At that time I sent it to Esquire and Playboy, but anyway, I kept writing, and all of sudden I had enough and thought, well maybe it is a book. ↗

— Don Novello

#article #book #enough #esquire #had

Writing is like carrying a fetus. ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#fetus #like #writing

I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#classes #few #get #harvard #i

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#certain #experiment #favorites #go #i