#hem

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#brush #canvas #palette #producing #recording

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. ↗

— Simone Weil

#because #best #ends #great #lives

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful. ↗

— Simone Weil

#bits #bow #consciousness #even #heads

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title. ↗

— Len Wein

#could #good #how #look #make

Our company is working with Disney to create a game for children between the ages of maybe four and 12, so we can teach them what the capitalist system is all about. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#ages #between #capitalist #children #company

I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important. ↗

— Len Wein

#been #between #difference #down #i

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback. ↗

— Len Wein

#complete #even #failures #feedback #finished

The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader? ↗

— Len Wein

#basic #bottom #bottom line #character #how

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics. ↗

— Len Wein

#done #i #job #laugh #made

I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did. ↗

— George Weinberg

#deal #did #hostility #i #landlord