Jazz Quote by Kathy Acker

Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.

— Margaret Atwood

I don't play a lot of instruments so when it comes to the song writing process I don't have a lot to do with…

— Barry Kerch

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release…

— Robert Creeley

The thing is, the way we write is all jams and bits and pieces that get pieced together and sometimes things are written with…

— Danny Carey

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

— E. L. Doctorow

Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word…

— Renata Adler

I think writing is really a process of communication. . . . It's the sense of being in contact with people who are part…

— Sherley Anne Williams

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

— Francoise Sagan

I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I…

— Lenny Kravitz

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

— Stephen King

Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us…

— William Zinsser

The thing about good writing is it has a music to it.

— Lauren Graham