Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.

Harry Connick, Jr.

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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

• I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Writing
  • Art
  • College

• The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

  

  Beck
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Song

• We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• 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 mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Day

• Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Writing
  • Democratic
  • Attitudes

• I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Play

• Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I'm running. Running literally jogs my brain.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Done

• Whether it's writing songs, being on stage, being interviewed, meeting fans - I just try to be myself, which is kind of exhausting because it almost feels like it never shuts off.

  

  Halsey
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Meeting

• My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match to my writing ability.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Writing
  • Power
  • Star

• I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed. One word was used to invoke collective nurture, the other to sketch out self-reflective individualism. Both states were necessary - that much the culture conceded - but they were oil and water and could not be mixed.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Culture

• My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film, that's it. It doesn't really matter what the medium is.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Game

• Writing makes you feel better, to get it all out.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • Writing
  • You
  • Better

• My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Happy

• My family was always playing with words. It is little wonder that even after I got serious about writing, I've had a hard time getting serious about words.

  

  James Howe
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Family

• You just do the best you can. It doesn't necessarily mean that you have to get worse the more you do it. It can get better, I think... aspects of it, anyway. I mean, I don't write as much as I used to. But I don't do a lot of things as much as I used to. So that's the natural order of things, too. You're more or less living in the present. You're just trying to get that next song, whatever it is. And not think too much about what happened on the last record, or the record you made 20 years ago, because those are over with. Those are done.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I tried to go to community college for a while, and it's a funny story. I walked into the English class on the first day, and they told us to write about what we did over the summer. I can't remember exactly, but I think I walked out exactly at that point and went to the office to ask for my money back.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Remember

• I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Grammy
  • Emmys

• In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • War
  • Ashamed
  • Contemporary

• There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Writing
  • Tragedy
  • Terrible