#writing

I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. ↗

— Phil Collins

#bear #broadway #brother #brought #drums

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#friend #gave #i #make #one friend

I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#anything #been #cooper #had #here

I always instruct my students to write a great deal. Write a journal. Take notes. Write when you are feeling wretched, when your mind is about to break down...who knows what will float up to the surface? I am an unashamed believer in the magical powers of dreams; dreams enhance us. Even nightmares may be marketable -- there is something to be said for the conscious, calculating exorcism of nightmares, if they give to us such works as those of Dostoyevsky, Celine,and Kafka. So the most important thing is to write, and to write nearly every day, in sickness and in health. In a while, in a few weeks or a few years, you can always make sense of that jumble of impressions...or perhaps it will suddenly reveal its sense to you. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#dreams

Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#bugged #come #consulted #dean #down

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#because #bond #bra #carried #certainly

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#found #give #glad #hope #i

I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own. ↗

— Dexter Palmer

#dream-of-perpetual-motion #english #language #the-written-word #writing

My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#am #because #books #changing #constant

In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better. ↗

— Brian P. Cleary

#could #found #i #least #peers