#rite

Many children's writers don't have children of their own. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#many #own #their #writers

I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#come #ed #i #listen #lyrics

I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about. ↗

— Ben Stein

#agree #apples #bad #corporate #exposing

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#below #clowns #little #seals #trained

But nothing is better than the market, where the customer and the business deal directly with each other, because if you rip people off, word gets out. That business eventually loses its customers, and the good ones that serve people well get the business. You get government in there, and it's just more money for the lawyers who write the bills. ↗

— John Stossel

#better #bills #business #customer #customers

I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones. ↗

— George Strait

#became #great #i #i can #number

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#ayn rand #because #compassion #economical #fiction

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#cave #fire #great #great american #into

The writer's duty is to keep on writing. ↗

— William Styron

#keep #writer #writing

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#compatible #desperate #mission #stuff #write