#write

I didn't do music to live; I lived so that I could do music. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#life #music #musician #singer #songwriter

If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention. ↗

— Lisa Cron

#women-writers-on-writing #writing-craft #writing-how-to #science

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life. ↗

— Cao Yu

#best #during #i #just #life

I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about... only out of time to write it in. ↗

— Rayne Hall

#writer #writing #writing-life #life

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#readers-and-writers #reading #writing #writing-craft #writing-process

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I’m from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters. ↗

— William Saroyan

#american #armenia #armenian #writers #family

Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family's life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer. ↗

— Arthur Hailey

#domicile #experiences #family #living #move

Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing. ↗

— H. Raven Rose

#writers-block #writers-on-writing #experience

My imagination was running amok again. Twice in one night. This never happens when I’m sitting in front of a typewriter. ↗

— Gary Reilly

#humor #imagination #writer-s-block #writing #imagination

I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction. ↗

— Anne R. Allen

#warning #writer-humor #humor