Rachel Cusk Quotes
Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.Rachel Cusk
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Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.
Ville Valo HIM -
When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.
J. Michael Straczynski -
Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.
Laura Wade -
I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
Lana Del Rey -
I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
Vince Gill -
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
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I love writing songs.
Sade Adu -
If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
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 -
Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.
Larry Hagman -
I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye.
Sam Heughan -
Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
Dan Brown
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Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world.
Rachel Kushner -
As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
Fede Alvarez -
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
A. B. Yehoshua -
Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
Irwin Shaw -
I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
Verite -
Writing is a form of licensed madness.
Mal Peet
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So lately, been wondering who will be there to take my place when I'm gone, you'll need love to light the shadows on your face.
Alex Band The Calling -
Songwriting never gets old. There's always stuff to write about.
Tori Kelly -
I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.
Alvin Ailey -
You chose a warrior, remember?” “As you chose an archangel.
Nalini Singh -
I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
Natalie Maines -
Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
Rachel Cusk