But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

Culture begins, however, with the correct movement of the language: and once it has properly begun, it begets that physical sensation in the presence of 'elegant' writers which is known by the name of 'loathing.'

The Songwriters Hall of fame, that's the one all the big-time writers get into, the really great stuff, the Broadway stuff and all that. That would be something, to get your name in there.

Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.