"I don't really see how any song can not feel contrived if it isn't honest, and how could I write honest songs if I don't write about stuff going on in my life and how I'm feeling?"

-- Lily Allen

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.”
“I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a right to the practice of her profession and cannot be condemned to abandon it merely because she marries. I cannot conceive how women's colleges, inviting and encouraging women to enter professions can be justly founded or maintained denying such a principle.”
“Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.”
“Sometimes, it's not getting what we want that offers us the most important Lessons”

Source : Joseph Boyden (2014). “The Orenda: A novel”, p.64, Vintage
“Seducing ourselves, our own self-delusions, the things we think we want but we really don't. Advertising in America is when we are sold our own dreams and desires.”

Source : "The Misadventures of Iris Smyles". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.
“I didnâ€™t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didnâ€™t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and Iâ€™d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.”
“In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason Ã¡ priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the earth, and in organic types, instead of attempting strenuously to frame theories in accordance with the ordinary operations of nature.”
“I'm sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I'm hip to it as well. I read 500 new plays a year, and 99.99 percent of them are not good. I see no reason to do a new play just because it's new. It's like kissing your sister, a virtue, but so what? It seems to me more worthwhile to take a proven playwright and say, Write something for us.”

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