#writ

Sometimes, as much as writing saves one’s own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another’s. This is another reason why it is important to do the work, over and over again. It is food, the kind a soul needs. ↗

— Lilith Saintcrow

#food

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#around #ball #ball game #becomes #composer

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#career #ever #feel #fundamentally #game

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#important thing #little #most #poets #possible

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#gets #into #least #playwriting #producers

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#make #out #riddle #someone #who

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#difficult #easy #good #quite #song

For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

#concept #intimidating #reason #some #swing

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#books #commissioned #kind #life #margaret

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

#ever #get #give #i #ideas