#writing

When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person. ↗

— Billy Sherwood

#keep #person #someone #songwriter #tend

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. ↗

— Hu Shih

#announced #begin #classical #experiments #friends

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#authorities #beyond #common #common sense #convinced

I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't. ↗

— Paul Simon

#drive #i #i love #imagine #just

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater. ↗

— William E. Simon

#checks #compare #corporal #greater #important

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story. ↗

— Rebecca Skloot

#book #me #people #story #telling

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear. ↗

— John Sladek

#clear #i #rather #reason #started

This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read. ↗

— John Sladek

#food #hate #i #junk #junk food

I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it. ↗

— Helen Slater

#being #better #better mother #creative #daughter

With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others. ↗

— Helen Slater

#allows #am #being #creative #dependent