#write

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#certainly #derived #down #i #individual

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#guitar player #harder #impress #like #me

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#college #effect #except #flunked #gone

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#had #i #just #painful #say

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#down #i #ideas #know #long

It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great. ↗

— Trey Parker

#every #great #i #i love #knows

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#about #divorce #express #family #for the people

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#before #book #finish #i #sell

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#also #always #beings #close #common

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. ↗

— Alan Paton

#books #die #end #hard #human