#rite

Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. ↗

— John McCarthy

#book #butcher #critic #favorite #his

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records. ↗

— Frank Black

#bob #bob dylan #bother #comparing #dylan

I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that. ↗

— Frank Black

#children #i #i write #kids #like

I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined. ↗

— Frank Black

#because #been #beyond #command #defined

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. ↗

— Russell Banks

#clever #desire #essentially #i #imitate

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer. ↗

— Bjork

#being #explorer #i #i love #like

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#going #had #happy #happy childhood #i

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#book #copies #give #hope #i

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#am #bad #been #camp #companions

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#cast #death #everybody #favorite #gloom