#writing

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#accumulate #allotted #anything #appetite #down

I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#writing #men

They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show. ↗

— James Lipton

#change #different #during #miracle #see

I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#again #another #fiction #going #i

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#been #i #making #overnight #overnight success

There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#about #being #books #children #day

I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children. ↗

— Hugh Lofting

#children #claim #i #illustrating #make

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing. ↗

— Walter Lord

#earned #i #never #somehow #through

I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me. ↗

— Courtney Love

#anybody #going #hurt #i #keeps

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#comic strips #drawing #funny #i #just