#writing

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87. ↗

— Steve Martin

#inspirational #writing #change

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~ ↗

— Gore Vidal

#writing-craft #change

I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect. ↗

— Angeline M. Bishop

#novels #passion #reflection #romance #writers

I sell my children, and though they feed me, they don't love me as hers do. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#writing #love

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. ↗

— James Michener

#love

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present. I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#stories #writing #love

Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human. ↗

— Dar Williams

#february #form #human #letting #made

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there. ↗

— Francis Thompson

#love #nature-writing #summer #love

Pastikan kau bergerak, juga menulis dengan rasa cinta, sebab itu yang akan membangun jiwa Indonesia dan dunia. ↗

— Helvy Tiana Rosa

#writing #love

People think, Hey, I love kids, I want to write children’s books. But they think children are happy. That’s their first mistake. [Messinger, Jonathan. "Guilt for dinner: The Mo Willems interview." Hipsqueak. 5 May 2011. Web. 18 November 2011.] ↗

— Mo Willems

#writing #love