Quotes of: Song-writing Keyword

People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation...

The Thirteenth Tale

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...

The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity—or even western creativity—but this assu...

The Tri-Axium Writings

Write down five character traits you admire most in your personal heroes. You now have a list of traits to emulate in your own life.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like everybody else?

Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46

I have lived through an eventful year, yet understand no more of it than a babe in arms. Of all the people of this town I am the one least fitted to write a memorial. Better the blacksmith with his cries of rage and woe.

Waiting for the Barbarians

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

Wolf Hall

Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent...

Writings on an Ethical Life

Through our reading we can travel to other times and other places, into other peoples minds and hearts and souls: it is a transcendent experience.

Writing As A Way Of Healing: How Telling Stories Transforms Our Lives

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life

The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys.

The Wee Free Men

Keep my word' is such a strange expression. At first glance, it just means 'Be true to what you agreed on. But it could also mean, 'Hold your words back.' Keep them in. Let your actions speak instead.

Write Naked

He leaned in close and spoke low. "Wow, I don't know what the hell I did to put that look on your face, but you need to write it down so I can commit it to memory.

Wide Open

If you have a dream, keep it. But write it down and take appropriate actions to see it manifest.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Some days are hard on us. Life gets serious and shit sucks. But you're my favorite distraction, attraction and human being. And, I can't wait to love you more tomorrow.

Write like no one is reading

I love having to attend the one class that is being taught by a professor who feels that their class is the only class being taught at the University and gives nothing but busy work.

Write like no one is reading

I don’t understand why Universities only offer undergraduate classes during the day when their professional staff should be smart enough to know that a large percentage of their students are non-traditional.

Write like no one is reading

Some people that are in charge are usually less intelligent than the people who work under them. The reason why those people are in charge and you aren’t is because you have a conscience.

Write like no one is reading

I'm such a strong human being. I amaze myself even. If only you knew what I've been up against, you'd want my autograph. I'm a real life superhero.

Write like no one is reading

Son, my dad said, every man needs a bitter, resentful woman in his life. Because there's nothing more touching to a mother's heart than to know that her son thinks of her constantly.

Write like no one is reading

My sincerest gratitude to every ass hole, horrible boss, and worthless piece of shit I've ever met for giving me new and endless material to work with and a way to earn a living exposing you.

Write like no one is reading