#writ

I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#going #i #i write #know #life

I mean, I don't write for kids. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#kids #mean #write

The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#writing-life #art

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#anecdotes #arrange #down #edit #full

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#gotta #know #material #merit #own

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic. ↗

— Yanni

#being #dread #emotion #get #i

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing. ↗

— Yanni

#being #illiterate #music #read #same

I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time. ↗

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#attend #career #conventions #else #find

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing. ↗

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#break #conventions #isolation #necessary #nice

I was an A student and I liked creative writing. ↗

— Trisha Yearwood

#creative writing #i #liked #student #writing