Virginia Woolf Quotes
When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
Quotes to Explore
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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
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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.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.
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In high school, I was doing my magazine 'Rookie' and a lot of writing, and I became a little less interested in the fashion world. I was approached by an agent for writing, and I said I wanted to act as well. They sent me scripts, and then I got my first Broadway play, 'This Is Our Youth'.
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I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.
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I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.
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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
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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.
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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
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When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.
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It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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Dad, there's smoke coming out of the can and coming out of your mouth, too. How do you do that, daddy?
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People wanted to put me in one category, I think because it was easier for them.
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I remember somewhere in his 70s, my dad started wearing a nightgown - like an old-school grandpa gown! I can see how that might be somewhere in my future.
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The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
