#i write

I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in. ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

#come #continue #else #grandchildren #grandparents

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work. ↗

— Gay Talese

#finished work #i #i think #i write #like

I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#better #domestic #even #feel #happier

When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#any #childhood #did #ever #felt

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#feminist #hero #i #i write #know

I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time. ↗

— Jim Varney

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I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice. ↗

— James Iha

#feel #heavy #huge #i #i write

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#aim #between #captured #contradiction #distinguish

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide. ↗

— Michel Legrand

#cast #decide #director #fifty #forty

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas. ↗

— Helmut Newton

#before #books #down #everything #forget