#writing

I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers. ↗

— Elaine Paige

#because #had #hoping #i #i remember

I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again. ↗

— Abraham Pais

#another #bed #came #clock #could

I like the idea that when I die, I will have a long sit-down chat with God and get answers to all my questions. For example, those apple cores that I threw out of car windows when I was a child—did any of them become trees? Few boys or men had ever asked me out. I told myself that it was because I was almost 6-feet tall. Was that true or was there something humbling I needed to know? ↗

— Kristine K. Stevens

#journey #pilgrimage #travel #travel-writing #truth

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is. ↗

— Ruth Park

#character #characters #full #genres #lasting

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be. ↗

— Ruth Park

#i #never #passion #storyteller #understood

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul ↗

— Albert Camus

#literature #writing #art

Foreman told Ray to plead guilty and he'd then give his brother $500, if Ray didn't cause any problems at the guilty plea hearing, and he could take that $500 and hire a lawyer to set aside the plea. Foreman actually put that in writing. ↗

— William Pepper

#any #aside #brother #cause #could

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. ↗

— Ross Perot

#action #author #being #contemplation #good

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#book #chattering #fiction #i #i think

And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing. ↗

— Casper Van Dien

#i #lot #reading #ride #ride horses