#writ

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. ↗

— Allen Tate

#art #england #forty #forty years #kind

Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience. ↗

— James Taylor

#commonly #experience #fire #happens #held

I play the piano a lot at home. I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage. I don't think I'll get the chance for a while. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#chance #get #guitar #home #i

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#come #i #important #like #may

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#fiction writers #long #only #people #science

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#career #father #had #i #man

My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since. ↗

— John Grisham

#books #brand #ever #i #keep

The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television. ↗

— Matt Groening

#also #anything #creating #done #fantastic

We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff. ↗

— Matt Groening

#bunch #funny #funny stuff #got #grew

Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up. ↗

— Emm Gryner

#get #i #just #me #outlet