#writes

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible. ↗

— Anne Rice

#everything #impossible #know #obviously #she

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person. ↗

— Adam Rich

#just #just one #make #person #really

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#behind #communicate #driven #educated #need

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#decent #formula #get #i #itself

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #better #gets

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#another #ceiling #could #cross #down

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try. ↗

— David Sedaris

#connor #dialect #even #should #than

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. ↗

— Martin Luther

#also #bible #clouds #flowers #god

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#miles #miles davis #plays #songs #who

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#compares #diary #every #every man #his