Writer Quotes
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I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.
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The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
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In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
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I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.
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Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.
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I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
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If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.
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the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.
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Medicine involves dealing with people who are going through changes and cycles, often people trapped in bodies that are going out from under them. Spending time with them lets you think their way, gives you insights as a writer.
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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
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I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.
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There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer.
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To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.
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I’m more of an organic writer, I like building things from the bottom, from scratch.
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During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
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Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.
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Believe it or not, in 1969 the French writer Georges Perec wrote a palindromic story that was 500 words long! The whole story reads the same backwards as forwards.
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Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.
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You don't really learn how to write songs; you learn to develop as a writer, and you get to meet lots of musicians and figure out what kind of sound you want. You have the time to just develop and try different styles, and that's what I did.
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The keyhole is my lens as a writer.
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I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
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Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.
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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
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I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.
