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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!


Nanci Griffith


#being #catch #else #good #hand

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.


Matt Groening


#before #beginning #characters #comments #done

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.


David Guterson


#book #doing #emerge #even #i

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.


Marilyn Hacker


#aside #better #draft #drafts #everyday

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.


Taylor Hackford


#cast #contribution #director #film #fit

And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.


Gregg Easterbrook


#damning #embarrassing #i #nfl #owners

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.


Joseph Haydn


#composed #efforts #great #i #never

Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that.


Suzanne Vega


#certain #civil #experience #follow #formalities

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.


Jim Henson


#ending #keep #life #like #movie

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.


Greg Egan


#been #directions #drags #fashionable #flying