#writer

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#civil war #day #five #good #good day

I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that. ↗

— David Friedman

#david #famous #hear #i #i may not

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#over #paper #somehow #structural #tend

Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically. ↗

— Martin Fry

#astute #basically #best #covered #era

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

I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy. ↗

— Winston Graham

#been #buy #computer #considerable #creative

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks. ↗

— Norman Granz

#does #ellington #leader #movie #musician

It's unfortunate we've never been just songwriters. ↗

— Adolph Green

#just #never #songwriters #unfortunate