Margaret Atwood Quotes About Songwriting

Quotes about: Songwriting

• Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Going Away, Taught

• Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth flow to hear or read, and it's easier to memorize.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Together, May

• The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel. Make the deaf hear.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Heart, Blind

• Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Lines, Married

• Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Waiting, Mood

• Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Forever, Lines

• You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Heart, Brain

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