“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Write without pay until somebody offers to pay”
Mark Twain
“If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
Benjamin Franklin
“One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.”
Alfred Kazin
“He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep.”
John Lennon
“There's no insecurity about my song writing. I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.”
Johnny Cash
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