#writing

Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too. ↗

— Andy Summers

#establishing #going #important #playing #prime

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#came #courage #facts #found #had

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#ayn rand #because #compassion #economical #fiction

The writer's duty is to keep on writing. ↗

— William Styron

#keep #writer #writing

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#am #especially #everyone #experiences #good

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#connected #example #for example #language #liberate

I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#come #ed #i #listen #lyrics

In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#ago #backwards #becoming #completely #fell

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#reading #something #worth #worth reading #write

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#homeland #live #longer #man #place