"Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me."

-- Dodie Smith

#Writing Quotes

“Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.”

Source : Song: Sir Duke, 1976
“The naked figures in the landscape have willingly undressed for my camera. They are either perfect beings heroically occupying their Edens, or else they are gardeners after the Fall, lost and exposed to both the elements and the lens.”
“Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state, and the common good of the citizens. And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue.”
“I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment.”
“More advice. Don't go near the Old One. Do go near the Old One. Don't stay past twelve. Trust the Will. Don't trust the Will. I wish someone would tell me something straightforward for once.”
“You'd be surprised. Girls like sensitive, namby-pamby guys.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in - Wall Street, the pop-music industry, Harvard - and what the very vague contours of the narrative might be (which typically get changed a lot through the writing process).”
“I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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