#ok

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#call #fairy #fairy tale #letter #nature

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

#always #basic #composer #decide #difficult

From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#became #breathing #convinced #dust #first

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#dislike #either #even #i #know

For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#anita #beginning #book #built #each

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#beginning #book #end #hundreds #i

I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#already #books #busy #first #first time

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#actually #anything #book #dreaming #fun

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#came #down #end #get #goal

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I? ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#book #character #character development #development #i