Quotes by Writing Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge down in plans. Barry Boehm agilityteamwriting I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine. Barry Bonds taperecordswriting Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them. Barry Eisler selfwritingbook When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it Barry Gibb writingsongideas I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them Barry Gibb would-bewritingsong I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs. Barry Gibb recordswritingsong I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct. Barry Hannah too-muchdonewriting I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a vanity met with vast gratitude, that you were hit by something as you stood in the way of it, that anybody is listening. Barry Hannah gratitudewritingbelieve I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed. Barry Hannah motorcyclewritingcountry I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun. Barry Hannah jumpingwritingfun I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer. Barry Hannah albumsmusicianwriting I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture. Barry Hannah flawskindwriting Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had. Barry Hannah writingtwothinking I don't really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It's a bad idea, terrible. I've met creative-writing majors from other places and they don't know a goddamn thing. They're the worst students. They just think they're good because they could pass. Barry Hannah writingbelievethinking I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused. Barry Hannah drinkingwritinglove I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But they're not. They're not out there waiting. They're not gonna use their intelligence on your book. Barry Hannah intelligentwritingbook I don't play a lot of instruments so when it comes to the song writing process I don't have a lot to do with that. A lot of times it's just acoustic guitar and a small riff that produces a song. Ultimately you want to write a song that people are going to enjoy and that you love to play, most importantly you have to write it for yourself first. Barry Kerch writingsongpeople The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that quality with everybody on a regular basis. Barry Lane qualitywritingschool All writing begins in the sea of experience. Barry Lane seawriting I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show. Barry Levinson actorswritingtelevision«128129130131132133134135136137138»
