Writing Quotes
My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.
I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.
Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.
I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.
Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.
Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.
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