#rite

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right? ↗

— Evan Dando

#even #even worse #movies #right #rock

The best songs I write in 20 minutes. ↗

— Evan Dando

#i #i write #minutes #songs #write

My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be. ↗

— Charlie Daniels

#another #christian #favorites #going #gospel

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#american music #appalachian #consciously #folk #i

My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anything #exactly #experienced #experiences #father

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react. ↗

— Stephen King

#always #because #been #comfort #doing

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular. ↗

— John Denver

#get #good #good fortune #good songs #great

If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#clearly #cover #else #i #like

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost? ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#ask #critics #does #dog #dogs

With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#fee #get #getting #going #hotel