#writ

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion. ↗

— Tony Snow

#confusion #experiences #express #fear #generally

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. ↗

— Anatole France

#down #love #lovers #their #truly

I felt for a while with the GH appearances, they were kind of using me as a media trick, bringing me on for three or four weeks, saying I was back on the show, but not really writing for me. And then I would be gone. I just didn't like that anymore. I guess it was me putting my foot down. ↗

— Genie Francis

#appearances #back #bringing #down #felt

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. ↗

— Socrates

#employ #gain #hard #improving #labored

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. ↗

— Socrates

#deliver #enabled #find #i #inspiration

Writing is the continuation of politics by other means. ↗

— Philippe Sollers

#means #other #politics #writing

One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#like #one thing #say #stories #them

Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#case #dry #far #i #ideas

Aggression, the writer's main source of energy. ↗

— Ted Solotaroff

#energy #main #main source #source #writer

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#ever #government #great #great writer #having