#writers

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity (because they are not themselves at the center of creation, cannot bear children) that a woman writer of genius evokes murderous rage, must be brushed aside with a sneer as 'irrelevant'? ↗

— May Sarton

#femininity #gender #masculine-feminine #women #writers

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town. ↗

— Steven Curtis Chapman

#artists #breeds #how #just #many

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work. ↗

— Paddy Chayefsky

#anything #art #artists #i #say

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that. ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#business #few #genius #i #legend

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great. ↗

— Jack Dempsey

#good #great #i #made #me

There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#charts #does #dominate #good #good songs

The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers. ↗

— William Devane

#bottom line #come #eighth #ends #everybody

If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you do that, the beauty appears: the peace, the meaning, the joy, the fulfillment, the sense that you are doing what you were born to do and what could be better, in the end, than that? ↗

— Lauren B. Davis

#writers #writing #beauty

It's unfortunate we've never been just songwriters. ↗

— Adolph Green

#just #never #songwriters #unfortunate

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half. ↗

— Lorenz Hart

#could #half #never #painters #paintings