#writing

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

I realised that the only time I really enjoyed music was when I was in the studio writing. So even though it was a six album deal, they saw quite early on that I wasn't enjoying it as I should be. I didn't feel there was anything behind it. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#anything #behind #deal #early #enjoyed

I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I'm acting and writing and I have a pool and a dog. ↗

— Krysten Ritter

#acting #commercials #dog #got #here

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music. ↗

— Johnny Rivers

#around #blackwell #bobby #bobby darin #darin

We collaborate on everything. I'm involved in the writing and pre-production. There's a whole bunch of people who keep in touch at every step about everything. ↗

— Jay Roach

#bunch #collaborate #every #every step #everything

She opened her eyes once again and let them drift across the scene laid out before her like a page from a storybook. Inky blackness hung above them as though painted in impasto in an opaque Prussian Blue. The impression it gave was of a sky hand-crafted out of felt with a pearl of a moon and a generous dusting of diamonds sprinkled on for the stars. A night dreams were made of. ↗

— Ella J. Fraser

#writing #dreams

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing. ↗

— Will Rogers

#evidently #full #hollywood #learned #people

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case. ↗

— James Payn

#any #arise #being #case #difficulty

Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#buy #day #days #down #every