#writ

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#begin #breaking #chapters #characters #delving

I like to feel sexy. I know my husband thinks I'm sexy. I think he is too. But I don't go out half-naked with 'sex' written across my back. ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#back #feel #go #husband #i

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#events #liars #make #own #people

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#i #i wish #integrated #more #sometimes

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#adventure #answers #any #close #home

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#dead #disturbs #novelty #originality #repels

I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out. ↗

— Beck

#go #i #just #out #see

The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#about #allowing #anybody #anyway #bad

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#been #easy #faucet #hard #just

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#around #chords #convincing #energy #forget