#writers

Inspiring others is the pathway to your own discoveries ↗

— Robin Craig Clark

#inspiring #inspiring-authors #inspiring-books #inspiring-quotes #inspiring-words

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#collaborating #components #directors #film #filmmakers

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education. ↗

— Hugh MacDiarmid

#education #escaping #fortunate #nearly #our

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

— Adolph Green

#just #never #songwriters #unfortunate

I get interested in writers who are enigmatic. ↗

— Harry Hamlin

#get #i #interested #who #writers

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half. ↗

— Lorenz Hart

#could #half #never #painters #paintings

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always. ↗

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

#alas #always #industry #nature #overall

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the deadly notion came from liking to read so much. Maybe I was in love with the image of being a writer. Whatever. It had been a really bad idea. Because I couldn't write, at least not by the bluntly and frequently expressed standards of anyone in a position to offer any encouragement and feedback. ↗

— Paul Di Filippo

#writers #writing #love

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true. ↗

— Don Henley

#forget #get #head #melody #notes

What I always meant by that was that I do believe that a lot of directors, and writers, and sometimes producers just lose their edge because they haven't seen anybody or talked to anybody or been with anybody who isn't a kind of replica of themselves for a long period of time. ↗

— Buck Henry

#anybody #because #been #believe #directors