#wrote

I wrote it three times - with a Thesaurus. ↗

— Gypsy Rose Lee

#thesaurus #three #times #wrote

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. ↗

— Alan Paton

#central #concern #issues #novel #publishing

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#buddy #different #english #fiction #john

I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#also #always #i #i always #i think

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#better #could #fiction #getting #i

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#english #englishmen #exceptions #found #french

So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#accountant #ago #cares #free #free press

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#comes #consciously #even #fiction #hoped

After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper. ↗

— Gary Webb

#am #angeles #central #cities #convinced

I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#being #confronted #day #every #first