Writing Quotes
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I go through cycles with my writing. I have cycles where I'm up all night and lose track of time, and then I go for months without a thing to write about. My song 'So Good, So Right' came to me while I was washing dishes after a dinner party.
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I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.
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You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
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Part of the joy of writing for kids is that you have to have a real adventure story. You can get really involved in the fantastic in a way that perhaps you can't so much in adult fiction.
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There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.
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I like writing, and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.
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Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.
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Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.
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When I was writing about Gotham in 'Broken City,' I was writing about Chicago. I just substituted the names.
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There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment.
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Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case.
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I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
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This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.
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I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.
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Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.
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I've always loved writing.
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Stepping back into theatre, a childhood dream, I always felt like I would be onstage. I hadn't imagined myself in a composer role... I find it so satisfying to be behind the scenes and writing the music and watching it elevated and characterized by different voices than my own. It's so exciting.
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This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.
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My producer, HH, makes sounds, so I'm writing to his beats.
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Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.
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I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
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I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.
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I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything.
