#writing

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it! ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#actually #am #book #going #i

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#course #doing #else #keep #might

The story of Jesus makes no sense to me. God sent his only son. Why could God only have one son and why would he have to die? It's just bad writing, really. And it's really terrible in about the second act. ↗

— Trey Parker

#act #bad #could #die #god

No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.' ↗

— Trey Parker

#because #came #critics #filled #funny

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#assignments #been #besides #doing #i

I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader. ↗

— Gary Ross

#book #communicating #day #directly #end

People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#artists #credited #i #influenced #influencing

I had a problem with cops pulling me over all the time for speeding. When I was doing Hill Street Blues, the cops said how much they loved the show as they were writing me up; meanwhile my insurance went through the roof. ↗

— Jennifer Tilly

#cops #doing #had #hill #how

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#forms #narrative #poems #poets #southern

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#dead #dead end #end #itself #kind