#writing

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#clear #cliches #common #days #how

And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#ace #after #biological #creative #creative writing

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#facial #give #important #line #pause

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later. ↗

— David Sedaris

#came #first #i #later #out

I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry. ↗

— David Sedaris

#because #cry #feel #glee #i

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#books #i #lose #okay #says

The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#never #really #songwriting #stepped

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost. ↗

— Kesha

#consider #else #first #foremost #fun

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read. ↗