#writing

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#grief #happy #moments #struggle #writing

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#i #job #think #writing

I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#communication #deconstruction #direct #extra #i

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#comes #gift #having #i #just

I used to love writing in my journal. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#journal #love #to love #used #writing

It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#about #brilliant #build #draw #gift

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#i #i am #life #like #lot

There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#been #cruel #destroy #different #even

I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#how #i #i think #making #remember

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#experience