Brandon Webb Quotes

Ever since wars have been fought, guys have been writing their stories.

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• I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Style

• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Learn
  • Start

• I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Yourself

• I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Writing
  • Talk
  • Singer

• I love writing songs.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Songs

• I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Work
  • Different
  • Writing

• Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Science

• When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • World
  • Writing
  • Girl

• I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Writing
  • Acting
  • Creative

• Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.

  

  Zendaya
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Vision

• There are no rules to writing a song.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Rules

• I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Lyrics

• I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Procrastinator

• Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Writing
  • Weird
  • Write

• The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Process

• There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writing
  • Rules
  • Three

• I firmly believe that we can protect taxpayer dollars, bus drivers' jobs, and the safety of our students. We just need a mayor who actually cares about all three.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Believe
  • Safety
  • Bus

• What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Just losing a couple pounds takes so much stress off your joints. Your body feels better.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Couple
  • Body
  • Stress

• Unfortunately, I think it's very difficult to separate policy from politics. In a perfect world, in some instances, you probably would want to. In other instances, you'd probably say that the political element is important because it should, in a perfect world, match what the stakeholders need or want, or what the public is after.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • World
  • Important
  • Political

• Ever since wars have been fought, guys have been writing their stories.

  

  Brandon Webb
  • Writing