#rite

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#box #crime #great #hands #his

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#frightened #i #i think #rush #think

I get the beginning. I get the end. Then I write the middle. That's how I do it. ↗

— Chazz Palminteri

#end #get #how #i #i do

At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away. ↗

— Janis Ian

#away #contract #day #end #end of the day

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer. ↗

— Janis Ian

#just #leaves #me #more #off

I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy. ↗

— Janis Ian

#anything #doing #else #i #i think

It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers. ↗

— Janis Ian

#better #i #i do #i write #make

When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn't really part of it. ↗

— Janis Ian

#because #call #confusing #end #hinges

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#latex #most #people #scientists #some

My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better. ↗

— Enrique Iglesias

#concerts #i #i can #motivations #songs