Alan Menken Quotes, Song Quotes, Writing Quotes

I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.

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I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Wise Quotes , Writing Quotes

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Writing Quotes

Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

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That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.

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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Writing Quotes , Ears Quotes

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Writing Quotes , Blood Quotes

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Work Quotes , Writing Quotes

I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project. But I can't ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.

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Tags : Alan Palomo Quotes , Writing Quotes , Inspire Quotes

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

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A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Writing Quotes , Night Quotes

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Quality Quotes

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

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As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Hate Quotes , Writing Quotes

Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Writing Quotes , Solitude Quotes

Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Writing Quotes , Important Quotes