#write

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. ↗

— Edward Fitzgerald

#cancel #finger #half #having #line

On No Work of Words On no work of words now for three lean months in the bloody Belly of the rich year and the big purse of my body I bitterly take to task my poverty and craft: To take to give is all, return what is hungrily given Puffing the pounds of manna up through the dew to heaven, The lovely gift of the gab bangs back on a blind shaft. To lift to leave from the treasures of man is pleasing death That will rake at last all currencies of the marked breath And count the taken, forsaken mysteries in a bad dark. To surrender now is to pay the expensive ogre twice. Ancient woods of my blood, dash down to the nut of the seas If I take to burn or return this world which is each man's work. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#poetry #reciprocity #writer-s-block #death

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#acceptable #certain #congenial #found #i

It's what every writer needs: a daybed. ↗

— Vince Flynn

#needs #writer

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#both #classed #express #good #letters

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#causes #creative #greater #represent #than

Don't try to write to the trend of the moment. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#trend #try #write

Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#his #how #just #know #lifetime

The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#creative #creative act #down #know #letter

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#being #ever #explorer #gave #go