#writ

I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat. ↗

— Mac Davis

#elvis #fun #gang #having #having fun

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years. ↗

— Mac Davis

#ghetto #i #trying #write #years

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written. ↗

— Mac Davis

#hear #i #real #someone #song

Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked? ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#smart #stacked #where #woman #written

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#down #easy #i #outline #part

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#background #be nice #deny #different #i

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could! ↗

— Brian Lumley

#could #critic #literary #loves #only

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#deal #even #got #i #sample

How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me? ↗

— Rabih Alameddine

#fitting-in #friends #life #living #relationships

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up. ↗

— Joan Didion

#failed #first #freeze #i #i always