"I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about."

-- Warren Zevon

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
“People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.”
“He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of " dog ." "It is you who are dogs," cried he, "when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast.”
“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.”

Source : In Observer 30 Apr. 1950
“Success is not only one thing. Its not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.”
“The very admission of the need to harmonize is an admission that the burden of proof is on the narratives, not on those who doubt them. What harmonizing shows is that despite appearances, the texts still might be true.”
“No one wants to see a boring tube sock.”

Source : "Rob Kardashian’s Sock Line, Arthur George, Debuts At Neiman Marcus, Hurts Our Eyes" by Jessica Misener, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2012.
“Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh”

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