#writer

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records. ↗

— Frank Black

#bob #bob dylan #bother #comparing #dylan

I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined. ↗

— Frank Black

#because #been #beyond #command #defined

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer. ↗

— Bjork

#being #explorer #i #i love #like

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#going #had #happy #happy childhood #i

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book. ↗

— Iain Banks

#book #entirely #ever #film #into

I'm an escapist kind of writer. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#i #kind #writer

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. ↗

— Josh Billings

#achieve #any #good #good judgment #honestly

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#alive #became #brilliant #fed #great

I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#buy #great #i #i am #i do

I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#buy #great #i #i am #insane