#rite

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#been #blank #blank page #filled #first

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#blank #blank page #damn #damn thing #doing

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write. ↗

— John Irving

#became #coached #competed #contact #discipline

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#i love #influenced #love #me #movies

My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome. I watched our people who had suffered so grievously through Hurricane Katrina fill a stadium hours before a game and stay hours after the game. ↗

— Michael Irvin

#before #day #favorite #fill #game

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin. ↗

— John Irving

#better #business #going #i #i think

There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write. ↗

— Gloria Estefan

#celebrity #just #just because #no reason #reason

I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant. ↗

— Louise Jameson

#brilliant #ever #favourite #history #i

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#commitment #eternal #funny #i #i write

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons. ↗

— Ma Jian

#basic #become #beings #expression #freedom