#rite

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#consequence #function #masterpiece #other #produce

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer. ↗

— Dane Cook

#director #doing #producer #sometimes #stand-up

Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about. ↗

— Jack K. Cooke

#anything #because #book #find #going

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#more #say #than #they say #writers

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#easily #i #lucky #me #plots

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#details #gets #his #life #own

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#book #direct #forced #i #movies

I don't write songs. ↗

— John Corbett

#songs #write

The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn't really like school all that much. ↗

— Kieran Culkin

#children #could #ditch #i #just

I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#ask #criteria #critical #everybody #good