#writ

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also. ↗

— George Strait

#bit #bug #gave #had #idea

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. ↗

— Mark Strand

#great #many #next #nothing #pays

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. ↗

— Mark Strand

#creative writing #creative writing programs #departments #english #happens

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest. ↗

— Mark Strand

#certain #certain point #dishonest #point #stuff

As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work. ↗

— Peter Straub

#excitement #felt #first #going #i

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. ↗

— Peter Straub

#began #fiction #full-time #i #instantly

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do. ↗

— Peter Straub

#henry #henry james #i #i write #james

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa. ↗

— Peter Straub

#again #because #better #characters #doubt

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#adventures #away #difference #fun #go

In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other. ↗

— Billy Strayhorn

#order #other #play #unique #write