#write

I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit. ↗

— Gary Allan

#becomes #best #bit #challenge #each

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#dry #i #my soul #soul #up

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#away #being #comes #cut #experience

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#english #english major #major #marry #number

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#hour #i #lunch #second #somehow

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#built-in #first #i #i see #neutral

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#epic #epic poem #i #most #poem

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

#american writer #hopelessly #rarely #sane #see

I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#brigade #citizens #city #comedians #entering

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#again #also #i #just #might