Quotes with song-writing

Quotes 541 till 560 of 578.

  • Winston Churchill Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • B. D. Wong Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Carol Berg Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.
    Carol Berg
    American writer of fantasy novels (1948 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Gene Fowler Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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  • Gene Fowler Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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  • Iris Murdoch Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Julie Burchill Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • Elie Wiesel Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Toni Morrison Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Olin Miller Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
    Olin Miller
    American businessman
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  • Juvenal Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Jules Renard Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Gloria Steinem Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • William Zinsser Writing is thinking on paper.
    William Zinsser
    American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher (1922 - 2005)
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  • J. P. Donleavy Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
    J. P. Donleavy
    Irish/American novelist and playwright (1926 - 2017)
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  • Joan Didion Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.
    (2006)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Anita Brookner Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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