#write

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#understood #write #you

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#children #hard #i #i think #idea

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#good #good book #i #mediocre #ones

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#know #lying #man #pen #takes

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#being #cast #constrained #fantasy #genre

Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#had #i #me #never #number

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#felt #go #gut #hit #mean

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot. ↗

— L. Sprague de Camp

#child #deformed #dismay #face #heard

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy. ↗

— John le Carre

#call #his #i #i think #lies

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology. ↗

— Clifton Daniel

#like #news #society #sociology #treat