#rite

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. ↗

— John Adams

#cannot #choose #ever #exist #existed

I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart. ↗

— Adele

#away #because #else #get #giving

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#grand #ignorance #increasingly #knowledge #larger

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?' ↗

— Mitch Albom

#always #characters #column #core #find

I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know? ↗

— Karen Allen

#contribution #even #feeling #find #going

I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said. ↗

— Jeff Ament

#everything #i #just #room #said

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#here #i #i write #know #must

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#having #i #i write #little #live

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited. ↗

— Michael Apted

#conceive #creative #credited #direct #directors

I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#create #heads #i #i can #institutions