#rite

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#after #books #done #especially #hardest

I don't have one favourite band. I like everything. ↗

— Sidney Crosby

#everything #favourite #i #like

I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny. ↗

— David Cross

#funny #i #idea #joke #original

The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line. ↗

— Christopher Cross

#aspire #bar #better #easier #gets

It is easy to write unthinking music. ↗

— George Crumb

#music #unthinking #write

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#always #being #being honest #confidence #even

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#being #being honest #book #finished #here

The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#cake #despair #difference #entitled #equally

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#charges #comes #drilling #easily #how

When you know who you are as an artist and you have your own identity and got it figured out it helps you know what to write about. ↗

— Keifer Thompson

#artist #figured #got #helps #identity