#writing

I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#busted #butts #cigarette #drank #floor

I'm writing a new book right now that is like an erotica manifesto. ↗

— Susie Bright

#i #like #manifesto #new #new book

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#bones #having #i #lot #me

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#come #general #give #happen #i

I'm an aspiring writer.' I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not. ↗

— Jake Black

#aspiration

If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone’s a liar. ↗

— Gregg Olsen

#writing #envy

I wasn't born to cook or clean, but to read and write, if you don't like me the way I am, then go fly a kite. ↗

— Besa Kosova

#writers #writing #cooking

If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#madness

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#intuition

...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#punishment