#rite

I think anyone would want to see their favorite band in a small club over a large stadium. ↗

— Bill Wyman

#band #club #favorite #i #i think

Let's talk about the Gas Company because this is my favorite job. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#because #company #favorite #gas #job

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters. ↗

— Susannah York

#because #becoming #characters #escape #go

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#access #any #art #artist #authentic

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#avoid #big #book #cannot #consciousness

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#doomed #either #i #man #myself

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#back #between #book #course #drunkards

I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#four #hour #i #midnight #night

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#ever #everything #expressed #first #i

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me. ↗

— Toby Young

#column #fired #firing #first #got