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Writing Quotes by Dorothy Fields
- I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.
- A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming…
- Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly…
- I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far…
- Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch