#rite

I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#exceeded #expectations #formed #fully #head

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#down #even #five #four #i

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#extraordinary #managed #produce #situations #terrible

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes. ↗

— Otis Rush

#guitar #how #i #i write #play

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#best #drops #else #everything #out

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#about #accidents #both #brought #conflict

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#easily #make #power #room #solitude

Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#characterized #combination #distinct #each #inherited

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. ↗

— John Ruskin

#autobiographies #book #deeds #great #great nations

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit. ↗

— Mike Rutherford

#easily #hard #i #i can #i write