#writ

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#gonna #i #i love #know #love

When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#backward #chords #experimenting #favorite #first

The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction. ↗

— Salman Khan

#bored #day #direction #done #fans

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that. ↗

— Salman Khan

#competent #enough #i #i am #lines

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it. ↗

— Omar Khayyam

#cancel #finger #half #having #line

I always want to write something better than the last book. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#better #book #i #i always #last

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#hard #i #keep #know #mind

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#book #effort #find #i #lot

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#easily #hard #i #i think #read

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#i think #nonsense #people #people say #say