#writ

I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that. ↗

— Peter Davison

#having #i #know #like #never

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#assembling #authority #could #done #happen

If you can write it, I can be it. ↗

— Karen Black

#i can #write #you

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio. ↗

— Ray Davies

#groups #i #i think #more #songwriting

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific! ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#bits #friends #like #little #little bits

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#basic #basic things #i #music #one thing

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#bartender #book #critic #drunk #good

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#both #despises #enslaved #father #him

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#conducive #down #knit #knitting #needles

Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers. ↗

— Jack Black

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