#rite

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#happens #i #i am #lesbian #love

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#felt #hasn #many #selves #separate

If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to be Kevin James, a broad physical pratfaller capable of deadpan underplay, a technique honed from years of reaction-shot close-ups on TV, where every teeny fraction of a squint registers. ↗

— James Wolcott

#capable #down #every #favorite #fraction

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#forget #reader #reads #reason #remember

Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#because #become #course #liberty #obligation

And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#doing #each #example #for example #i

Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#already #aware #because #difficulties #done

I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be. ↗

— Edmund White

#arbitrary #biography #challenge #did #especially

Robert Altman's 'Nashville' is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#also #altman #bases #because #covers

I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing. ↗

— George Woodcock

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