#writ

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I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.


Robert Penn Warren


#expect #glory #greater #hear #i

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.


Robert Penn Warren


#becomes #enough #having #itch #like

Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.


Cynthia Weil


#i #i think #mature #really #say

In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out.


Margaret Weis


#books #character #choice #choices #endless

I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl.If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on.


Devon Werkheiser


#before #figured #gauge #girl #i

I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.


Morris West


#always #enough #i #interest #interests

Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.


Samuel West


#books #discover #doing #exist #fill

I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.


Samuel West


#always #been #book #bores #collected

Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.


V.S. Naipaul


#writing-philosophy #inspirational

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.


Edmund Spenser


#writing #love