#writ

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#direct #edit #editors #everyone #expert

My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#believe #comes #everything #follow #follow your heart

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#cases #characteristic #commercial #composers #down

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph. ↗

— Robert Emmet

#inscription #man #tomb #upon #write

I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#ever #forget #get #hand #i

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#career #catch #catch phrase #come #composing

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!' ↗

— Brian Eno

#am #crazy #how #i #i am

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. ↗

— Brian Eno

#generated #lyrics #peculiar #processes #random

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. ↗

— Edward Fitzgerald

#cancel #finger #half #having #line

None of this was written to hurt anybody's feelings. ↗

— Ric Flair

#feelings #hurt #none #written