#write

I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time. ↗

— Jim Varney

#i #i write #lease #like #music

There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true. ↗

— Ian Hart

#complete #eventually #gave #internet #know

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#ears #eyes #his #paint #painter

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#closed #firmly #great #i #mouth

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#daily #does #miracle #paint #pleasant

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#believe #dedication #does #hold #i

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#doing #even #hold #illusion #important

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#feelings #hope #i #i do #ignore

Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#cottage #great #i #live #lucas