#writer

I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well. ↗

— Alex Chilton

#arrange #being #club #fairly #good

This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more. ↗

— David Eddings

#bomb #bored #even #had #his

I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way. ↗

— Dave Edmunds

#been #compliment #considered #contributing #each

If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying. ↗

— Jaroslav Seifert

#maneuver #may #ordinary #ordinary person #person

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. ↗

— William Gaddis

#distressing #front #his #more #nothing

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed. ↗

— Wolcott Gibbs

#anything #barns #bats #being #better

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it. ↗

— William Golding

#forget #immediately #knows #meant #probably

When they do bring on new people, it's good for the show. It's like getting a new toy. The writers enjoy it because it's a whole new character that they can write for, one that they aren't used to writing for. They can try different things. ↗

— Mark-Paul Gosselaar

#bring #character #different #different things #enjoy

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking. ↗

— Alvin Dark

#curve #how #know #made #mistake

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't. ↗

— Robyn Davidson

#just #myself #see #travel #writer