Writing Quotes

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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album,… — Adele
I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs. — Adele
I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like… — Adele
I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche. — Adele
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. — Saul Bellow
If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in… — Adele
The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so… — Adele
The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. — Robert Benchley
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was… — Robert Benchley
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. — Robert Benchley
To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting… — Dirk Benedict
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one… — Walter Benjamin
I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both… — John Berger
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one… — John Berger
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. — Hector Berlioz
Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A… — Annie Besant
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories… — Annie Besant
I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco. — Jello Biafra
I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters. — Jello Biafra

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