#write

Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#eyes #fat #fiction #i #lawrence

Although Patterson Beams was not my first plug-in, I knew from the beginning that I would write it, because the single biggest time consuming factor for me was editing each beam manually. ↗

— Robert Patterson

#beam #beams #because #beginning #biggest

Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how you're going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you. ↗

— Gregory Peck

#character #cope #front #going #how

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#chambers #concentration #five #gas #gas chambers

I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks. ↗

— Anne Perry

#did #i #pages #rewrite #two

I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write. ↗

— Anne Perry

#course #eat #enjoy #i #i think

Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome. ↗

— Anne Perry

#been #conventions #deal #excellent #extraordinarily

You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why. ↗

— Anne Perry

#does #down #end #everyone #go

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning. ↗

— Katy Perry

#girl #i #meaning #quirky #songs

I write my songs because I've lived them. ↗

— Katy Perry

#i #i write #lived #songs #them