Charles Bukowski Quotes
My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out.Charles Bukowski
Quotes to Explore
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
Ed Westwick -
All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
J. M. Coetzee -
Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
Caleb Landry Jones -
Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
Ian Doescher -
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
E. L. Doctorow -
If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
Padgett Powell -
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 -
I love writing songs.
Sade Adu -
Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.
Madison Smartt Bell -
Hard writing makes easy reading.
Wallace Stegner -
I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
Vikram Rohit Shetty
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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 don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
Tao Lin -
The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
Calvin Trillin -
I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
Taylor Swift -
I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
Gail Sheehy -
I think often that God is guiding me.
Natalia Makarova -
I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.
Kate Bush -
I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.
Avicii -
My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out.
Charles Bukowski