You Compose Quotes
- You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down some sort of… — Aaron Copland
- You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea… — Roy Lichtenstein
- What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with… — Ian Hamilton Finlay
- Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at… — E L Doctorow
- The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation. — James Fenton
- Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction. — E L Doctorow