#writing

You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing. ↗

— Macklemore

#comfort zone #compelling #different #get #interesting

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development. ↗

— Norman Macleod

#cannot #character #character development #children #complex

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#darling #doing #everything #fascination #find

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching. ↗

— Albert Maltz

#attempts #became #by the time #college #discrimination

I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing. ↗

— David Mamet

#back #coming #could #day #drawback

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions. ↗

— David Mamet

#inappropriate #influenced #job #novel #opinion

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. ↗

— Paul de Man

#affirms #after #ambivalence #both #cannot

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#anything #back #better #far #i

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#like #lives #many #people #satisfaction

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#acting #contained #creation #dangerous #leave