Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing? Never.  Anonymous quotes Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. Anonymous quotes It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page. Anonymous quotes Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. Anonymous quotes Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Anonymous quotes Hard writing makes easy reading. Anonymous quotes Now, I'm sitting in class enjoying a late breakfast when out of all the classrooms in the school, she walks into mine! And where does the teacher sit her? Right next to me! Up until now, one could write this off to coincidence. But then she reaches in her bag and pulls out a strawberry Pop-Tart---the very same breakfast pastry I was consuming at that moment! What was I to do? How was I to proceed? Anonymous quotes You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life. Anonymous quotes The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart. Anonymous quotes I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it. Oscar Hammerstein II quotes | 
