#writing

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#already #apprenticeship #autobiographical #been #experimental

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ↗

— David Ives

#because #challenge #comedy #english #form

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.' ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#both #contributions #criticism #feel #his

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#book writing #diversion #great #poetry #prose

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#because #behind #billy #billy graham #book

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why. ↗

— John Fahey

#book #bought #chord #country #did

There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

#any #feeling #i #song #special

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#i #i can #long #manuscript #place

Each one of us had a little story to tell and each recording was based on that. Lou played all of the music but we both sort of kicked around some cords during the writing phase. ↗

— Phil Harris

#based #both #cords #during #each

I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too. ↗

— Jerry Harrison

#bit #fine #i #i think #lot