#writing

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#berlin #broadway #broadway musicals #composers #drawn

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have. ↗

— Ben Harper

#closer #craft #doing #ever #feel

I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#art #art college #became #been #channeled

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#humans #includes #matches #me #mere

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing. ↗

— Max Hastings

#also #am #book #fish #fishing

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#any #enjoying #i #life #more

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#helps #me #process #things #writing

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#associated #i #joy #lift #moment

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#everything #finished #gomez #i #i write

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi. ↗

— Beth Henley

#alone #christmas #class #dime #i