#writing

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm. ↗

— Jack White

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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. ↗

— Patrick White

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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man. ↗

— Patrick White

#again #began #beginning #called #developed

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#honest #man #separated #who #writing

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

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The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you. ↗

— Richard Peck

#writing-from-the-heart #writing-life #life

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#adverse conditions #behaves #conditions #defects #difficult

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'. ↗

— Eminem

#almost #bars #beat #comes #eight

The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands. ↗

— Abdallah II

#arab world #future #hands #new #our