“I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.” WritingFirstsMomentsUseBarsAdvertisingJournalismLoadTruckWorkshopsChauffeursWriting Workshop Author:Dennis Lehane
“I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.” WritingTogetherMusicianBars Author:Gyorgy Ligeti
“How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that...we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies.” MenShouldWritingIdeasEndsDiesLiteratureColorStoresBarsVersionsCodeOrgansConsistencyGroceriesGreat IdeaGrocery StoresToothpastePrometheusFastidiousCuneiform Author:Alice Weaver Flaherty
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer - not just genre or niche writers, but every single one of us.” WorldWritingEndsWholeChallengesIndustryRaisedMonstersBarsWhole WorldVampireGenreDemonWorking ItEnd Of The WorldNicheHacksSlayerBuffy The Vampire Slayer Author:Russell T Davies
“If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.” IfsWantWritingSongFallGirlTroubleEasierRedDressesBarsChairsTonightSay AnythingFifthMartiniFalling Off Author:Stephen Sondheim