Influencing Write Up Quotes & Sayings

I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business. — Nathan Fielder

Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream. For I am by no means confining you to fiction. If you would please me - and there are thousands like me - you would write books of travel and adventure, and research and scholarship, and history and biography, and criticism and philosophy and science. By so doing you will certainly profit the art of fiction. For books have a way of influencing each other. Fiction will be much the better for standing cheek by jowl with poetry and philosophy. — Virginia Woolf

Movies and television may be influencing writers to write more visually, using immediate scenes with specific points of view to put their stories across. But fiction can always accomplish something that visual media will never be able to match.
...
One of the great gifts of literature is that it allows for the expression of unexpressed thoughts: interior monologue. — Renni Browne

Drama school is a pretty intense experience, and I think it changes who you are. — David Tennant

The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year. — Thomas Dreier

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own. — Phillip E. Johnson

Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, that they had courage that they would stand up, that they could be counted on. — Robert Kennedy