#write

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#fantastic #i #prose #sophisticated #stories

When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you. ↗

— Brian Moore

#figures #freshness #inside #longer #normal

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#i #poems #want #write

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#miles #miles davis #plays #songs #who

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#come #i #just #plan #start

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#chores #expected #family #had #i

It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#around #best #environment #get #goodness

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry. ↗

— Ben Okri

#begins #circles #come #conscious #cycle

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#citizen #day #depression #every #every day

I write very slowly. ↗

— Carla Bley

#i write #slowly #very #write