“My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.” PeopleWritingWellsEnoughFactsFacesDifficultTalkingAmbitionBlockMysteriousPrescriptionsHysteriaWriter's BlockWriting Well Author:Thomas Mallon
“Any young, aspiring musicians out there, if music is what you want to do, if music is what you love and your passion. It doesn't take a fragrance, it's not about the tabloids, it's about you putting in the work, practicing every day, practicing your vocals, practicing your instrument, practicing songwriting. Hopefully one day you write the song the whole world wants to get down to. I promise you, if you go out there and sing and you put your heart and soul into it and you follow your dream, one day you're going to be sitting next to Ellen DeGeneres talking about how you broke records and rocked the Super Bowl.” WorldWantWritingWholeSongNextTalkingRecordsOne DaySittingWhole WorldHopefullyBrokeBowlsSuper Bowl Author:Bruno Mars
“Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.” WritingYearsBookTalkingSuccessfulRiskMinesSensesBeing SuccessfulNot Talking Author:Vikram Seth
“I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.” WayWritingTryingUseShowsCertainSongGivenDifferencesResponsibilityTalkingFansListeningRadioMaking A DifferenceWriting Songs Author:Randy Owen
“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.” WritingFirstsHouseTalkingPressureOpeningYardsUpstairs Book:Selected Letters Source: Selected Letters
“I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.” WritingYearsTalkingTypewriters Author:Alistair Cooke
“For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?” WritingYearsArtIdeasFeltTalkingKnowingProduceDrawsCriticsNo IdeaMistrustRhymingCouplets Author:Adam Gopnik
“For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing a dialogue begun thousands of years before and which he believed would never end.” WayWritingYearsBookEndsRealityReadingTalkingConsciousLaysCoreDialogueReading BooksContinuingWriting A BookBook ReadingBook WritingVisceralBorges Book:With Borges Source: With Borges
“When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence.” WritingChildrenBookUsedTalkingTeacherMomNotesMy MomSpokesRemarksTrainersNote Book Author:Boman Irani
“Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that fiction writers start talking about how characters are talking to them, and it's crazy, she's never had that. And I also thought, I'm never gonna be able to do this, because I didn't feel that for a really long time.” FeelsWritingTryingLongCharacterAbleFictionTalkingCrazyLong TimeOkayParisInterviewsReviewsFiction WritersReally Long Author:Sloane Crosley
“It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.” WritingSpeakLanguageTalkingMore TimePlaying Music Author:Nitin Sawhney