#writ

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#challenge #desk #face #genius #go

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es! ↗

— Hilary Putnam

#backward #formulas #i #i think #logic

Work. Don't Think. Relax. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#relaxation #writing #inspirational

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#another #authors #comparing #discovered #former

I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#goes #gospel #i #i write #inform

There are no tips for life neither for travelling ↗

— Guido Colombo

#travel #travel-writing #life

You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye. ↗

— Charlotte Rae

#minutes #producers #public #show #take

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters. ↗

— A. Lee Martinez

#writers #writers-on-writing #writing-life #life

Art is the overflow of emotion into action. ↗

— Brian Raif

#art #creative-expression #creative-process #creative-writing #creativity

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. ↗

— Walter Raleigh

#happily #heels #his #history #may