Carolyn Coman Quotes

We write to find out what we didn’t know we knew. We write to know deeper and truer. We write to connect the dots: a whole new constellation.

Carolyn Coman

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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

• 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
  • Writing
  • Over
  • Wrote

• The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I'm concerned, love is absolutely everything.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Love Is

• I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Reading

• I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Writing
  • Food

• I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Loved

• I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for 'The Wilderness' and try to be confident and not overwhelmed by it.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Decision

• By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Writing
  • Identity
  • Communication

• I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Unhappy

• You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• It sounds odd, but I was a singer and started writing songs, and I didn't have anything in mind. Maybe it crossed my mind that it would be cool to have a hit record and a career, but that was so out of reach that I don't think I thought about it that much.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Career

• When I started writing, it felt good, and I knew I was in the right genre.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Good
  • Writing

• I think I'm genuinely sincere, and that's what hopefully makes it work. I take that very seriously when I'm writing.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Work
  • Writing

• I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.

  

  Jascha Heifetz
  • Writing

• Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of.

  

  Marisha Pessl
  • Writing
  • Forever

• Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Fun

• When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing his novels has been as good a lesson as any.

  

  Deborah Copaken Kogan
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Reading

• This is something that Randi Weingarten said to me when I interviewed her once, which I think I quote in chapter nine. She talks about how only 7 percent of private sector workers in the American economy are in unions. So all the protections that teachers have that are due to collective bargaining - including generous pensions, generous health plans, limits to what they can be asked to do after school and in the summers - all of those things are sources of resentment to the public. And I think that politicians have played off of that quite effectively.

  

  Dana Goldstein
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Teacher

• Well, we can look each other shortly - either we check that we have to play or one gives a sign to end.

  

  Der W Böhse Onkelz
  • Play
  • End
  • Sign

• Its difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesnt matter if youre talking vampire movies or Dawn of the Dead or The Thing or Escape From New York. Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Film
  • Understand
  • Vampire

• Years on, Christine and John still have a deep love for each other, as do Stevie and I - we've been working together since I was 17.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Together
  • Deep

• We write to find out what we didn’t know we knew. We write to know deeper and truer. We write to connect the dots: a whole new constellation.

  

  Carolyn Coman
  • Writing
  • Deeper
  • Constellations