#writing

I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#ever #forget #get #hand #i

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#career #catch #catch phrase #come #composing

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. ↗

— Brian Eno

#generated #lyrics #peculiar #processes #random

I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there. ↗

— David Friedman

#big #doing #here #i #projects

At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. I hope this isn't too melodramatic or self-centred a way of saying that I attempt to write as if I did not care what reviewers said, what peers thought, or what prevailing opinions may be. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#death #independence #nadine-gordimer #writing #death

I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft. ↗

— Christopher Cross

#dent #huge #i #i think #mtv

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ↗

— Samuel McChord Crothers

#capital #every #gets #keeps #letter

Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years. ↗

— George Crumb

#more #move #seems #through #writing

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#conscience #farming #our #scruple #writing

You shouldn't even be writing this story if you haven't heard me play live. You can't write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert. ↗

— Dick Dale

#dale #even #haven #heard #live