Composition Quote by Henry David Thoreau

I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.

— Lalo Schifrin

Composing is sort of an intuitive act. You have to put yourself in the right frame of mind.

— Howard Shore

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

— Rick Moody

All of your experience comes into play when you're composing.

— Terry Bozzio

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

— Arnold Schoenberg

Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills…

— Liz Phair

Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master.

— James Johnson

Composition is interesting because, in a sense, you always have to let it go. Unless you're a true composer/performer, you're always sending a PDF…

— Nico Muhly

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than…

— Ernest Hemingway

I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming to restness…

— Diane Arbus

One of the principals of composition, I would say, in fiction, is you want to do what you can do a lot of. You…

— George Saunders

Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

— Edward Weston