#writing

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#background #crimes #experience #financial #found

Don't get it right, get it written. ↗

— Ally Carter

#advice

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away. ↗

— Adam Pascal

#daunting #get #i #inspiration #just

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#book #consumed #i #i think #need

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#being #being a teenager #disastrous #fluffy #i

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard. ↗

— David Sedaris

#hard #humor #i #i think #look

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days. ↗

— John Pilger

#days #his #like #litmus #litmus test

By the time I got to high school, I had learned to be more cautious about revealing my dreams. I was reading—and therefore writing—adventure stories. This was before I’d read Isak Dinesen and Mikhail Bulgakov, before Ernest Hemingway and T. Coraghessan Boyle, before I’d read something and really felt it, when writing was still just a compulsion, and my teen-age brain was only bordering on sentience. I filled pages of white space with swashbuckling, rapier-wielding, sidekick-sacrificing, dragon-baiting romance. (from 'High-School Confidential' in the The New Yorker.) ↗

— Téa Obreht

#writing #age

There are no tips for life neither for travelling ↗

— Guido Colombo

#travel #travel-writing #life

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters. ↗

— A. Lee Martinez

#writers #writers-on-writing #writing-life #life