#written

When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#book #cook #fast #fast food #food

Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#every #program #purposes #two #which

There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. ↗

— Ross Perot

#living #read #things #two #worth

Written reports stifle creativity. ↗

— Ross Perot

#reports #stifle #written

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#directed #film #first #i #like

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#alone #books #change #copies #feel

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#get #literary #schism #success #unwritten

When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#decide #finish #fix #force #garbage

For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#admitted #am #confusion #ever #every

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#book #constantly #draft #entire #go