#trying

I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape. ↗

— Andrew Dost

#chords #fit #folds #healthy #how

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#court #get #had #i #me

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. ↗

— Rita Dove

#come #curriculum #early #get #instead

I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross! ↗

— Hilary Duff

#ate #away #bug #flying #get

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#creative #each #fictional #i #irritant

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#deal #feelings #find #images #intense

The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#forever #guided #idea #knowledge #last

Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#also #course #expect #issues #make

It's something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy - that idea of someone who is always trying to get in there with the right crowd, always trying to be a certain type of person and never managing it. ↗

— Jack Dee

#certain #comedy #crowd #get #idea

Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else. ↗

— Mos Def

#else #figure #focused #having #hustle