#writing

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living. ↗

— Harold Pinter

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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#based #change #history #i #little

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#architecture #art #art form #aspect #certainly

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club? ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#ass #better #chair #club #down

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#books #cranky #get #hard #i

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block. ↗

— Richard Powers

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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#after #days #directing #fantasy #i

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#badly #either #hear #listening #lying

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#attention #claim #lies #only #real