#writing

I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall. ↗

— Bruce Greenwood

#another #basic #doing #feeling #film

It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#always #boring #i #i remember #just

Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing. ↗

— Val Guest

#bad #better #enough #i #make

If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#approve #commit #die #kids #marry

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

#contain #drawing #lines #machine #paragraph

I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#being #class #directly #each #i

95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#because #choice #distributors #seems #want

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment. ↗

— Paul Haggis

#could #go #his way #i #i think

Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#any #because #entire #i #interested

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#could #i #indeed #knew #literature