#writers

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

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#anyone #bad #because #cannot #claims

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#anymore #books #breakthrough #building #called

Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe. ↗

— Stacey T. Hunt

#author #awesome #believe #books #dare

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#actually #before #blood #contract #directors

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. ↗

— Craig Raine

#arrive #diseases #great #impatient #irresistible

So when I got the chance to do my first talk show, 50 years ago last month, I never had any writers. There was no budget - it was just me and the camera and my friend who was the director. I talked about what I'd done that week. ↗

— Regis Philbin

#ago #any #budget #camera #chance

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery. ↗

— Grant-Lee Phillips

#easier #find #i #i think #inspiration

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#clear #efficient #good #keep #language