Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it's a pos...
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.
I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience.
As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym.
I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.
So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.
I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100,000 You are a writer.
Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through the fingers, through the hands.
when the mind runs free , write a song . music pours happiness into the soul and a happy soul creates eternal success
My reason for being an author? Because I love to write - it fulfills me. But the fact that I entertain others by doing it is a lovely bonus.
When you find yourself writing, reading, or listening the delivery of words when spoken? You know the melody of wordplay. “& I love Wordplay
It is sad and shocking to think that victory and the lives of thousands of men are pawns to the "fear of They," and the writings of a group of unprincipled reporters, and weak-kneed congressmen.
Reading non-fiction without writing notes is like chewing without swallowing. You will get the taste of it but digest nothing
And as I venture into anothers pit of everlasting darkness, I'll return with a simple blackened rose. and with that rose I shall write the stories it tells.
