#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

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

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#being #books #distracted #dodging #elevation

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#failed #most #some #writers

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#computer #i #i am #intended #interest

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#cause #due #either #fail #i