“No explanation is required for Holy Writing. Whoso speaks truly is full of eternal life, and wonderfully related to genuine mysteries does his Writing appear to us, for it is a Concord from the Symphony of the Universe.”
Pupils at Sais (1799)
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“Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write”
Dani Shapiro (1962) Author
Source: Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
“We were writing little symphonies for the kids.”
Phil Spector (1939–2021) American record producer, songwriter
Pop Chronicles Interviews #107 - Phil Spector, Part 3 https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1752029/m1/, August 1, 1968.
“One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.”
Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor
Quoted in The Edmonton Journal (8 March 1999), C3
“…none can truly write his single day,
And none can write it for him upon earth.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
Unpublished Sonnet (originally written as a preface to Becket), in Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son, by Hallam T. Tennyson (1897)
“Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.”
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
