#rite

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#choice #inherited #kind #parent #parents

I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way. ↗

— Dave Edmunds

#been #compliment #considered #contributing #each

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#after #communication #critics #form #gave

I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#automatically #collected #everything #hitman #i

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. ↗

— Robert Frost

#books #i #i am #learn #order

Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country. ↗

— Roberta Flack

#country #criteria #deciding #especially #fickle

If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet. ↗

— William Hague

#came #dead #drop #feet #me

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years. ↗

— Ken Follett

#biggest #continue #drama #ever #evil

We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for. ↗

— Fred Frith

#band #could #couple #felt #first

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift. ↗

— Mavis Gallant

#began #done #dream #father #fear