#writ

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#i #i think #myself #storyteller #think

I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well. ↗

— Alex Chilton

#arrange #being #club #fairly #good

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction. ↗

— Alex Chilton

#anything #coming #conviction #decent #done

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#because #believed #believes #book #collaborator

I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#fourth #graders #i #most #third

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. ↗

— Lucille Clifton

#celebrated #mistake #more #people #poetry

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it. ↗

— Adam Clymer

#book #different #fix #get #look

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#around #book #due #head #i

Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again. ↗

— Stephen Collins

#away #book #days #few #full-time

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#age #checks #excess #interest #later