#writing

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#books #correcting #course #expected #i

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#closest #come #ever #men #writing

Alimony is the curse of the writing class. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#class #curse #writing

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#being #between #book #child #conceiving

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven. ↗

— Jena Malone

#ever #i #i love #love #seven

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#more #other #people #somebody #than

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music. ↗

— Taryn Manning

#enjoy #hobby #just #me #music

They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control. ↗

— Teena Marie

#artist #be the first #classic #control #creative

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#bit #child #dinner #dinner table #directing

What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#acceptable #anxieties #correct #i #john