#writing

A worthy quote makes you think A good quote states more than the obvious An excellent quote removes doubt A great quote teaches you something A genius quote changes your mind. ↗

— T. Crossley

#writing #change

I write for the same reason I breathe ... because if I didn't, I would die. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#writing #motivational

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#on-writing #motivational

I felt like poisoning a monk. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#writing #motivational

where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish letters inside. ↗

— Edward Gorey

#letter-art #letter-writing #letters #art

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#skill #writing #music

He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my hair's off to one side and I feel like I've been in the foxhole all day. I don't think comfort is good for music. It's good to come out with skinned knuckles after wrestling with something you can't see. I like it when you come home at the end of the day from recording and someone says, "What happened to your hand?" And you don't even know. When you're in that place, you can dance on a broken ankle. ↗

— Tom Waits

#songs #writing #music

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better. ↗

— William Faulkner

#writing #music

...you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ... ↗

— John Geddes

#forcing-words #language #muse #writing-advice #art

Here," I say. "You can put music behind it, and it will be your own." And it strikes me that this is how writing anything is, really. A collaboration between you who give the words and they who take them and find meaning in them, or put music behind them, or turn them aside because they were not what was needed. ↗

— Ally Condie

#music