#writ

Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#also #course #expect #issues #make

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#direct #direct way #personal #some #way

The truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers. ↗

— Susie Orbach

#life

No, my son's a songwriter and he does that. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#son #songwriter

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#disadvantage #eye #forms #gives #governs

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#am #because #birth #care #child

This autocue was obviously written for someone else and I've been brought in at the last minute. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#brought #else #i #last #minute

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#first #heart #his #piece #praise

I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time. ↗

— Zac Efron

#down #go #gonna #good #good songs

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#book #changed #could #diaper #every