#shed

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#been #cannot #completely #critic #established

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#am #being #component #i #i am

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished. ↗

— Willem Dafoe

#christ #could #dirty #down #fun

I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit. ↗

— Gary Allan

#becomes #best #bit #challenge #each

I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it. ↗

— Gary Allan

#beat #different #done #finished #hear

As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else. ↗

— Marc Almond

#finished #go #i #like #project

My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#better #book #earlier #favorite #last

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#books #brother #get #hand #i

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#change #directly #enterprise #friends #himself

Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others. ↗

— Namie Amuro

#closest friend #different #even #finished #friend