#writing

I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#i #remember #songs #writing #written

So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#combination #different #different people #each #how

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#always #just #politics #sake #want

I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes. ↗

— Dave Attell

#i #joke #jokes #like #other

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#evolved #failures #into #process #ratio

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#course #dead #democracy #else #everything

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#art #culture #earn #fact #his

When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#blair #bush #caves #law #literature

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#i #i think #more #nothing #painter

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#among #apt #authors #excel #humour