#writ

If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain. I know what's wrong with me! ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#alice #block #brain #crazy #creative

What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed away, I wanted to buy it from the rest of my family and keep the house in the family. That was the only reason I even attempted writing for money. ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#away #buy #earn #enough #even

I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it. ↗

— Fred Frith

#associations #because #habits #i #i write

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound. ↗

— Fred Frith

#how #idea #songs #sound #write

One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic. ↗

— Fred Frith

#candy #context #doing #during #enjoyed

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#busy #communications #deal #dreams #great

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. ↗

— Robert Frost

#had #i #lover #me #my own

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. ↗

— Robert Frost

#end #i #knew #never #poem

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. ↗

— Robert Frost

#free #free verse #like #net #playing

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward. ↗

— Robert Frost

#circles #forward #himself #how #indicates