#rite

The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#curve #dreamed #ever #every #every time

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along. ↗

— Harry Stack Sullivan

#cement #chapter #childhood #during #each

I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#else #even #house #i #someone

I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#having #his #hitchcock #i #just

And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#i #like #lyrics #realized #sing

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#brain #excited #get #i #novel

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#done #english #i #lyrics #making

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors. ↗

— Ken Hill

#authors #being #best #brain #everyone

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences. ↗

— Ken Hill

#experiences #i #i can #i do #life

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#edge #ill #must #near #sand