#writ

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#head #i #ideas #just #me

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance. ↗

— Will Oldham

#definitely #extent #i #i write #last

Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that. ↗

— Will Oldham

#find #give #hear #i #interactions

It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#always #between #black #books #communion

Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#really #shakespeare #subtext #write #you

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#alcoholism #books #die #encouraging #essays

One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar. ↗

— Jack Paar

#ernest hemingway #gets #gone #had #hemingway

It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration. ↗

— Bettie Page

#been #care #fans #feel #i

I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers. ↗

— Elaine Paige

#because #had #hoping #i #i remember

I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again. ↗

— Abraham Pais

#another #bed #came #clock #could