#writing

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#am #any #i #i am #kids

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. ↗

— Clarence Day

#reading #thinking #well #writing

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#could #down #i #lines #move

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me. ↗

— Iris Dement

#call #come #easy #fulfilling #fun

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#entertain #i #just #like #myself

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#anything #ended #i #know #rewriting

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#anything #basically #because #being #being a girl

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#any #being #broader #context #experience

It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade. ↗

— Joan Didion

#after #anyway #before #begun #berkeley

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting. ↗

— Joan Didion

#back #even #every #feel #get