“I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.” WritingBeautifulWriting Music Author:Joanna Newsom
“My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.” WayWritingPhilosophyBeautifulPoliticalRelevantFavouritePolitical PhilosophyLeonTrotsky Author:Andrej Pejic
“The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story.” WritingCharacterStoriesBeautifulMaterialsSmartVery SmartBeautiful WritingThematic Author:Scott Rudin
“Listen, a cable series is a beautiful thing because there's such amazing writing happening on television, and it's a schedule that allows you to do a play or two. There's a reason everybody wants that job!” WantWritingTwoReasonPlayJobsBeautifulTelevisionHappeningsSeriesBeautiful ThingsSchedulesCables Author:Lily Rabe
“Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go control, when the work takes off on its own and flies, farther than they ever planned or imagined, to places they didn't know they knew.” KnowsWritingBeautifulUsedLetting GoCrashSomething BeautifulLaunching Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from your subconscious, is beautiful - it's thrilling. When you're editing, which is your conscious mind, it's like torture.” WritingMindBeautifulJoyConsciousTortureEditorsEditingSubconsciousThrillingSubconscious MindConscious Mind Author:Steve Martin
“I have a very beautiful room in my house... It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and... I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.” ThinkingFeelsWritingEndsBeautifulThreeHouseSidesPerfectRoomsNiceOfficeGlassesExposedBedroomDistractedVery NiceVery BeautifulThree Sides Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.” WritingFirstsWantedBeautifulFictionCollegeSentencesWriting Fiction Author:Karen Thompson Walker
“As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.” WritingStillsWantedBeautifulNightHouseLostCompanyNovelWonderfulStorytellingCombinationEditorsPublishOne NightManuscriptsDebutBeautiful WritingCharlotteLifeboats Author:Karen Thompson Walker
“Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.” KnowsFeelsWritingMeanStillsEnoughBeautifulSimpleMistakeAliveSakeFoolishDivinityLive ByAssertionTheologicalStill Life Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“I write a lot of songs about being in love, how beautiful women are but I've definitely experienced that other side of love where you're in a situation where you love a girl so much but you just know for a fact that she doesn't love you the same. "Grenade" is the extreme way of saying "I'd do anything for you and why can't I feel you would do the same for me?” KnowsWayFeelsWritingFactsBeautifulSongGirlSidesSituationLove YouExtremesBeautiful WomenBeing In LoveGrenade Author:Bruno Mars
“In Beautiful, Mr. Shearer writes with humor and has fun with some of the glorious nonsense of Lamarr's movies.” WritingBeautifulFunHaving FunGloriousNonsenseShearer Author:Jeanine Basinger
“Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must have sold her heart to the devil to write like this—so beautiful, so funny and so strange. Her images stack and stack down the page without spilling, each line such a bombshell you'll start reading backward to the first line. These poems are like babies—they will pop out of trees.” WorldWritingFirstsHeartBeautifulEvilReadingLinesTreeStrangeBabyPagesDevilPopsGorgeousSpillingBombshellsBest Poem Author:Zachary Schomburg