Arda Collins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.
-- Arda Collins

#Writing #Important #Songwriting
Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer.
-- Arda Collins

#Names #Fiction #Building

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.
It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I have often heard music that I have instantly felt 'I have to sing that song'
Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.
I've done so much songwriting and I know how to do it.

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