Quotes for All
There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom. Garet Garrett
When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense – just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can’t imagine what writing will be like in 2154. Gail Collins
It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless. Gabrielle Zevin
For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn’t mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is … Read more
I’ve been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I’ve been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen. Gabrielle Aplin
I think being a singer-songwriter… your job is to tell a story that other people can’t really tell themselves. And I really hope that people kinda go: This happened once and I kind of like this song because I relate to it… So if at least one of my songs over this tour’s that song, … Read more
The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s a tired reading style. I’m sick of it. It attaches more importance to the words than the words themselves—as they’ve been arranged—could possibly sustain, and it gives poets and poetry … Read more
Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. ‘It is true’, he replied, ‘but you would do well not to believe it. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and can’t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?…It no longer matters to me who receives … Read more