#written

The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#acknowledged #calling #day #had #house

I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#cabaret #considered #i #patter #singer

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions. ↗

— Paul Henderson

#east #fairy #fairy tales #folklore #known

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#books #every #few #i #movies

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. ↗

— Horace

#give #last #long #nor #pleasure

Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#chronology #commentaries #cover #events #fairly

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#characters #come #either #hard #i

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#could #i #memoirs #think #three

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#almost #been #blame #cases #children

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#clear #could #ever #far #goals