#write

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book. ↗

— Malcolm Cowley

#be kind #book #considerate #criticism #good

Today, writers want to impress other writers. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#other #today #want #writers

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#comes #destroy #down #everything #head

When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun. ↗

— Didi Conn

#around #book #could #did #drawing

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#consequence #function #masterpiece #other #produce

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer. ↗

— Dane Cook

#director #doing #producer #sometimes #stand-up

Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about. ↗

— Jack K. Cooke

#anything #because #book #find #going

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#more #say #than #they say #writers

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#easily #i #lucky #me #plots

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#details #gets #his #life #own