#writing

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. ↗

— Shania Twain

#fun #fun thing #i #i do #most

Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world. ↗

— Pierre Janet

#imagination #literature #mind #surrealism #writing

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#form #me #thinking #writing

I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't. ↗

— Greg Egan

#any #change #grand #i #intend

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#divided #least #life #my life #performing

I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#clean #cooking #crash #day #doing

I'm not a chef. I haven't created any new technique in the kitchen. I'm not a rocket scientist. I think I'm good at writing accessible, fun, and affordable meals for the average American family. That's what I think I'm good at. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#affordable #american #american family #any #average

I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#compare #developed #films #find #habit

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#ambiguity #appalling #book #boy #butcher

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists. ↗

— Tommy Rettig

#business #formed #guitar #learned #managing