Unsaid Thoughts Quotes

The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years.

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.

There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might have been about me,' or, 'I know it's about me.' I do play that pretty close to the vest. I don't think I'm ever gonna write a song and drop somebody's name in it.

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.

I look back upon my times when more people were listening to what I had to say, and I didn't say enough.

These days what's not worth saying gets set to music.