#tin

Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#get #i #people #records #writing

Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#done #even #i #in the past #like

...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to flee to the margins; it was...this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#writing-poetry #art

That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#back #blind #bring #calls #challenge

The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#financial #industry #states #united #united states

Someday I will have revenge. I know in advance to keep this to myself, and everyone will be happier. I do understand that I am expected to forgive N and his girlfriend in a timely fashion, and move on to a life of vegetarian cooking and difficult yoga positions and self-realization, and make this so much easier and more pleasant for all concerned. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#first #generate #get #i #ideas

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#books #clubbing #excitement #feel #get

I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#because #circumstance #extreme #frame #humanity

There is a kind of mysticism to writing. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#mysticism #writing