“You must find some way to elevate your act of writing into entertainment.”
William Zinsser (1922–2015) writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, professor
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 22, Write as Well as You Can, p. 276.
“Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.”
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) American novelist, short story writer and poet
“The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.”
David Hare (1947) British writer
A Map of the World (1982), cited from Carol Homden, The Plays of David Hare (1995), p. 124.
“Writing is the act of discovery.”
Natalie Goldberg (1948) American writer
Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.”
Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 3: 1920
“I have left Act I, for involution
And Act II. There, mired in complexity
I cannot write Act III.”
Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) American politician
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