#writ

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#actually #before #blood #contract #directors

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. ↗

— Craig Raine

#arrive #diseases #great #impatient #irresistible

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law. ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#because #beings #human #human beings #i

...(W)here there's drama, there's crap. ↗

— Jincy Willett

#writing #inspirational

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#i #like #myself #regularly #writing

At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#writing #inspirational

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. ↗

— Beverley Nichols

#book #chapter #chapters #first #poetry

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity (because they are not themselves at the center of creation, cannot bear children) that a woman writer of genius evokes murderous rage, must be brushed aside with a sneer as 'irrelevant'? ↗

— May Sarton

#femininity #gender #masculine-feminine #women #writers

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#even #five #i #i write #pages

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not. ↗

— John Milius

#either #storyteller #writer #you