#writes

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript. ↗

— Richard Steele

#mind #seldom #woman #writes

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#considered #filmmaker #himself #i #myself

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#back #book #comes #doing #goes

So, my sweetheart back home writes to me and wants to know what this gal in Bombay's got that she hasn't got. So I just write back to her and says, Nothin', honey. Only she's got it here. ↗

— Alvah Bessie

#bombay #gal #got #hasn #her

What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#course #each #end #first #first of all

As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'. ↗

— Tom Skerritt

#me #once #rewrites #told #very

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself. ↗

— Dario Argento

#every #extent #himself #some #writer

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#cause #economical #everything #lazy #myself

I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

#deliver #felt #green #i #instead

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#his #little #lives #nature #nothing