Jane Goldman Quotes

The idea that you could make a living from writing always thrilled me.

Jane Goldman

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• When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Writing
  • School
  • Present

• 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

• I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Myself

• Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Place
  • Criticism

• Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Best
  • Tough

• You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Time
  • Writing
  • May

• I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Myself

• Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Pain
  • Baby

• I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Best

• I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Man

• Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Mom

• There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Hand

• Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Support
  • Question
  • Stupid

• Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a writer first.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Myself

• Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Enough

• Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Light

• Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Life
  • Why
  • Scenery

• I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved it, and it's been beneficial now, but it was difficult because, although I can read music, I much prefer just playing and improvising and at least finding my own way to play an instrument.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • Music
  • Fun

• The idea that you could make a living from writing always thrilled me.

  

  Jane Goldman
  • Writing