#writing

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#clever #crude #enough #genius #girl

I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line. ↗

— Macklemore

#editing #fine #fine line #however #i

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

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#more #other #people #somebody #than

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music. ↗

— Taryn Manning

#enjoy #hobby #just #me #music

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

I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#certain #created #did #even #ever

People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.' ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#asked #been #cholera #clear #clearly