Always trying Quote by Tony Palermo

I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to…

— Patty Griffin

During those times like in my early years as a writer I could actually write a song in ten minutes because all of a…

— Ben E. King

Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.

— Joan Didion

We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose…

— Julia Cameron

I think the way I write is kind of naturally rhythmic. If there's anything of my own in my writing, I think that's my…

— Jazmine Sullivan

a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time…

— Nadine Gordimer

“Think of playing an instrument. When first picking up a new piece of music, a musician hammers out the notes slowly and methodically to…

— S. Ciccarelli

Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that.

— Robert Lepage

I think, for me, one of the biggest things that I struggle with is keeping the excitement up when writing a song. A lot…

— Brendon Urie

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work

— Donna Tartt

I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

— Georges Simenon

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

— Walter Kaufmann