#writes

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. ↗

— Edward Fitzgerald

#cancel #finger #half #having #line

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#beings #crave #feel #going #great

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever. ↗

— Chris Martin

#artist #band #care #competitive #good

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#anytime #done #just #song #songs

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#end #end product #every #generation #history

A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#cow #like #milk #publisher #who

I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

#deliver #felt #green #i #instead

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. ↗

— Alfred Kazin

#make #minds #oneself #others #paper

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not. ↗

— Len Wein

#matter #period #someone #work #writer

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#attention #beach #book #capital #considers