Writer Quotes
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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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Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.
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There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer.
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The Revelation was my master's project, and after I finished it, I thought I'd send it off to a publisher and within a year or so be a rich and famous writer. Two years later I finally sold it. For a whopping $4,000. A year after that, it finally came out. Which explains why there are all those terrible jobs on my resume!
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You become a good writer just as you become a good carpenter: by planing down your sentences.
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I’m more of an organic writer, I like building things from the bottom, from scratch.
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There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.
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Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.
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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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I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
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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.
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the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.
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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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I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
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I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.
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The keyhole is my lens as a writer.
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Nobody's safe around a writer.
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I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.
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The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.
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The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.
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There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.
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If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.
