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“The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.”

Giving Writing Wells Persons Has Beens Ideas States Song Sound Exercise Give Me Satisfaction Studios Songwriting Arrangements Nurture Masterpiece Writing Songs Envisioning

Author:Brian Wilson

“I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.”

Writing I Can Sound Sentences

Author:John McPhee

“No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.”

Writing Sound Too Much Fraud Hype

Book:So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews

Source: So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews

“I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my first-born novel, laughed at my phrasing, twirled my lacy pretensions around and gobbed into the seething mosh pit of my stolen clichés. As I read the report, the world became very quiet and stopped rotating. What poisoned me was the fact that the report's criticisms were all absolutely true. The sound of my landlady digging in the garden got the world moving again. I slipped the letter into the trash... knowing I'd remember every word.”