#writ

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#as far as #concerned #copying #easy #far

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#before #book #finish #i #sell

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#also #always #beings #close #common

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#could #grocery #hours #i #i can

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. ↗

— Alan Paton

#books #die #end #hard #human

I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#because #colors #decided #got #i

I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes. ↗

— Neil Peart

#already #five #guy #i #just

Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how you're going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you. ↗

— Gregory Peck

#character #cope #front #going #how

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#chambers #concentration #five #gas #gas chambers

Sean's a great, great writer. ↗

— Robin Wright Penn

#great writer #sean #writer