#write

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments. ↗

— David Del Tredici

#composers #instruments #love #musical #orchestras

I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#amount #because #been #gathering #good

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#certain #cues #each #end #even

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#benign #certain #cruel #disregard #entirely

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#clock #half #hours #i #month

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow. ↗

— Jessica Cutler

#becomes #characters #constantly #doing #follow

The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation. ↗

— Billy Ray Cyrus

#asked #come #company #could #desperation

No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I love it and it's my escape. ↗

— Miley Cyrus

#escape #here #how #i #i love

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#day #demands #each #fear #fiction

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#his #needs #out #walks #wants