#writ

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest. ↗

— Barry Mann

#creative #crop #hard #harvest #how

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#changes #chaos #condition #course #indefinitely

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#being #consists #idea #make #out

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#might #pious #upon #volumes #written

I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing. ↗

— Taryn Manning

#being #blessing #brother #else #find

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#because #comedy #doing #even #got

I want to write for history, not for the moment. ↗

— David Maraniss

#i #moment #want #write

The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine! ↗

— Ricky Martin

#every #gay #get #get a life #going

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready. ↗

— Steve Martin

#actor #because #constructing #else #first

I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea. ↗

— Steve Martin

#americanized #anyone #ask #classic #could