#rite

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#favourite-books #inspirational #sad #soul-searching #wallflower

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's. ↗

— Richard D. James

#arrogant #else #ever #favourite #i

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#i #i think #melodrama #myself #opera

I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#believe #groups #i #i believe #information

If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life. ↗

— John Irving

#any #beginning #i #interesting #last

When you write a song, a song has longevity. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#song #write #you

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#discovery #first #i #idea #like

Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things. ↗

— Joan Jett

#beyond #certain #certain things #deeper #falling

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#been #entire #entire life #i #life

And I'm not trying to write heavy songs. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#i #songs #trying #write