Novice Quotes

A BIG PART OF SONGWRITING, like all writing, is editing-distilling thought down to essentials. Novice writers often hide behind filigree. In many cases the artistry is in what is unsaid. As the old saying goes, an iceberg moves gracefully because most of it is beneath the surface.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.