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Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#get #i #people #records #writing

Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#done #even #i #in the past #like

...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to flee to the margins; it was...this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#writing-poetry #art

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones. ↗

— Dean Ween

#dozen #good #good ones #least #ones

That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#back #blind #bring #calls #challenge

The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#chops #completely #develop #different #driven

When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#ask #come #go #hit #hit single

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.' ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#back #back-up #get #go #i

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not. ↗

— Len Wein

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I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw. ↗

— Len Wein

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