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I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design. ↗

— Richard Powers

#arrange #constraint #design #dullness #each

You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#betrayal #build #deaths #edged #fight

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write. ↗

— Hugh Prather

#actual #desire #must #then #write

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#career #children #consider #delightful #frankly

I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#fun #guitar #helps #i #i do

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#few #first #given #i #i write

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#bigger #book #books #collection #difference

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#art #because #cathartic #create #i

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#cathartic #goal #had #i #mostly

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do. ↗

— Richard Price

#arts #because #choice #does #feel