#rite

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#after #alone #been #day #depends

Sometimes when I watch a TV season, your favorite shows die quickly. And then sometimes it's not your favorite, and they live on for 12 years. ↗

— David Spade

#favorite #i #live #quickly #season

Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience. ↗

— James Taylor

#commonly #experience #fire #happens #held

I play the piano a lot at home. I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage. I don't think I'll get the chance for a while. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#chance #get #guitar #home #i

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#come #i #important #like #may

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#fiction writers #long #only #people #science

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

Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs. ↗

— Levon Helm

#favorite #forever #songs #young

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's. ↗

— Richard D. James

#arrogant #else #ever #favourite #i