#writ

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. ↗

— Martin Amis

#boldly #every #exemplary #his #hopes

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer. ↗

— Tori Amos

#composer #dreams #go #i #i think

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring. ↗

— Tori Amos

#compared #feel #getting #occurring #passage

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone. ↗

— Tori Amos

#i #just #living #living room #me

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes. ↗

— Tori Amos

#crew #fun #keep #list #minutes

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics. ↗

— David Amram

#authority #blake #classic #ginsberg #had

I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how I feel - I think that's what you're supposed to do, if you're a good writer. So I try to do that. I know I do that. I do do that. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#good #good writer #honest #how #i

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. ↗

— David Antin

#hard #hardly #how #i #imagine

I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#be different #because #bound #did #different

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#earn #ever #first #living #spouse