"There's already a great deal to do writing the songs. And if I were completely in control of it, nobody would be able to say "this song doesn't work.""

-- Stephin Merritt

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I didnâ€™t fall in love with James. Falling sounds like an accident. Falling hurts. Iâ€™d fallen in love with Michael, fallen hard like slipping off a cliff and hitting the rocks below. Falling in love was something Iâ€™d vowed never to do again. I chose to love James.”
“I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.”
“I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.”
“You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.”
“I admit that thoughts influence the body.”
“I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods.”

Source : "Yesterday's Screen Heartbreaker Tina Munim, Now Ambani, Turns 60". Interview with Khalid Mohamed, www.thequint.com. November 2, 2017.
“These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic religion as if this religion were not the work of God but of man, or some kind of philosophical discovery susceptible of perfection by human efforts.”
“Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn't stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing.”

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