#writing

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside. ↗

— Mordecai Richler

#four #much #novel #outside #room

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter. ↗

— Molly Ringwald

#any #assumption #book #celebrity #dictated

I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#because #crack #directing #fairly #feel

It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#because #desk #direct #directing #down

Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#cult thing #dealing #difficult #difficult thing #ever

I loved the process of writing. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#loved #process #writing

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#hope #i #started #than #would

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#always #career #come #family #i

I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#book #christian #christian nation #cite #colonial

She opened her eyes once again and let them drift across the scene laid out before her like a page from a storybook. Inky blackness hung above them as though painted in impasto in an opaque Prussian Blue. The impression it gave was of a sky hand-crafted out of felt with a pearl of a moon and a generous dusting of diamonds sprinkled on for the stars. A night dreams were made of. ↗

— Ella J. Fraser

#writing #dreams