#rite

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#another #ceiling #could #cross #down

Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work! ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#guess #i #i write #love #much

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#case #first #foreign #intellectuals #invasion

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#always #between #i #i always #life

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college. ↗

— David Talbot

#been #college #ever #favorite #i

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden. ↗

— Amy Tan

#culture #onerous #placing #represent #responsibility

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#i #myself #novels #really #screenplays

Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience. ↗

— James Taylor

#commonly #experience #fire #happens #held

I play the piano a lot at home. I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage. I don't think I'll get the chance for a while. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#chance #get #guitar #home #i

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#come #i #important #like #may