#rite

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. ↗

— Bobby Knight

#grade #greater #learn #most #second

To become a writer a person must read constantly, the more varied the writers and their material then all the better. One must also have a lot of life experience, travel to exotic locations and live among the local people. Yet most importantly a writer needs the determination to keep at their writing regardless of what others might say or think about it ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

#diversity #living-life-to-the-fullest #travel #writing #experience

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#essays #fritter #his #should #someone

The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#brad #brad pitt #engaging #film #film industry

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#i #i do #political #tracts #want

That was, in writing the 'Twilight' script I had about five weeks to write that. I'd taken about a month to write the outline and then it was slam into a script and write it down fast because the writer's strike was looming. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#because #down #fast #five #had

When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.' ↗

— Kristin Kreuk

#dear #doing #elementary #elementary school #go

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#am #amazed #fact #i #i am

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#i #stuff #torments #try #us

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#business #columnist #gossip #his #none