Layne Thomas Staley Quotes
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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 -
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
E. L. Doctorow -
I love writing songs.
Sade Adu -
I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Hard writing makes easy reading.
Wallace Stegner -
Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.
Jackie DeShannon
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I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.
Aaron Sorkin -
Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
M. Night Shyamalan -
From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.
M. J. Rose -
Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
Ed Sheeran -
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 -
I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's, like, 60 - and it doesn't work.
Zachary Knighton
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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 -
In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
Idris Elba -
I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience.
Kate Klise -
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.
Dan Brown -
I've had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote 'Sugar' and 'Honey' at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern.
Mary Steenburgen
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.
James Daly -
In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It's all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor.
Adelaide Clemens -
That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
Laura Osnes -
We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains