#writing

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. ↗

— Mark Strand

#great #many #next #nothing #pays

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. ↗

— Mark Strand

#creative writing #creative writing programs #departments #english #happens

Mostly, I just want to be in my house reading and writing. ↗

— Julia Sweeney

#i #just #mostly #reading #want

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#curious #ever #explore #felt #had

I always have to be writing. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#i #i always #writing

I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60! ↗

— Taylor Swift

#around #become #blonde #bow #continue

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#because #covers #ever #i #i love

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#culture #everything #makes #should #writing

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing. ↗

— James Taylor

#direct #me #mysterious #one thing #process

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done. ↗

— James Taylor

#defend #done #get #hours #phase