#writing

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#each #even #infinite #interrupted #night

So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merely celebrate a beauty but create one; that yours is love that brings it own birth with it, just as Plato has declared, and that you should therefore give up the blue things of this world in favor of the words which say them ↗

— William H. Gass

#writing #beauty

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#periodical #sift #stamp #use #work

I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better. The writing and directing have improved a lot, because the audience demands it. ↗

— Claudia Christian

#because #better #blood #days #demands

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am. ↗

— Eric Church

#as far as #because #comfortable #far #grown

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line. ↗

— Glenn Close

#bottom #bottom line #go #good #good writing

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#i #know #novel #oh #writing

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you? ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#beings #each #how #human #human beings

You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#began #go #impact #mad #might

Here's a haiku/palindrome I wrote called, "Obsession." Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #haiku #obsession #palindrome #poetry