#writ

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

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Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in. ↗

— David Bowie

#i #input #interesting #interpretations #lot

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.' ↗

— David Bowie

#always #atheist #because #been #bit

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write. ↗

— David Bowie

#some #songs #strangely #want #write

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated. ↗

— David Bowie

#christ #different #different way #each #explore

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#storyteller #writers

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#guided #more #nothing #than #writing

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law. ↗

— Robert Bork

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I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim. ↗

— Wilford Brimley

#behind #flush #get #go #high

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#everything #nobody #writer