#rites

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#chronic #contentment #drunkenness #good #humor

I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#beauty

And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#blogs #care #haven #i #interesting

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#end #end product #every #generation #history

A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#cow #like #milk #publisher #who

My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be. ↗

— Charlie Daniels

#another #christian #favorites #going #gospel

I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

#deliver #felt #green #i #instead

Senorita was fun to sing, but I don't really have a favorite. When you write a bunch of songs, they're like your babies. You don't pick favorites. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#bunch #favorite #favorites #fun #i

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not. ↗

— Len Wein

#matter #period #someone #work #writer

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#attention #beach #book #capital #considers