#rite

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#actually #american #american writers #areas #call

I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through. ↗

— Gary Allan

#going #i #life #people #relevant

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. ↗

— Martin Amis

#boldly #every #exemplary #his #hopes

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer. ↗

— Tori Amos

#composer #dreams #go #i #i think

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring. ↗

— Tori Amos

#compared #feel #getting #occurring #passage

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes. ↗

— Tori Amos

#crew #fun #keep #list #minutes

It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind. ↗

— Naveen Andrews

#casting #color #directors #easy #films

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#hand #i #inherited #monarchy #over

I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#comics #dc #first #horror #house

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write. ↗

— Tom Araya

#i write #just #lyrically #musically #write