Philip Glass Quotes
My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.Philip Glass
Quotes to Explore
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
Joanne Rowling -
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
E. L. Doctorow -
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
Kate Bush -
Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
Rachel Cusk -
I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
Callie Khouri -
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
Harrison Birtwistle
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The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
Dalai Lama -
Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
Harlan Coben -
Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
LaToya Jackson -
Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
Pamela Sargent -
I just write mechanical things.
Barry Zito -
Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.
Kat Edmonson
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'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.
Sir Isaac Brock KB -
Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
Dan Brown -
Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
Irwin Shaw -
Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
Mao Zedong -
I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
Verite -
'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
L. E. Modesitt
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It's funny, we started writing chick-lit when it was just becoming a crowded marketplace, and now the same thing is happening with YA. It really used to just be one shelf at the library - Nancy Drew and Judy Blume.
Emma McLaughlin -
I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them.
Katori Hall -
Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.
Louise Mensch -
I'll starve to death before I'll cook for myself.
Megan Fox -
My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.
Philip Glass