Writing Quotes
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I was too ashamed and afraid to confide in friends, and wanted to convince others and myself that my marriage was a success. I lost myself in my writing. Finding ways for my characters to overcome their problems and make their relationships work helped plaster over the wound caused by my inability to make things right at home.
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I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.
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I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.
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I was always a keen reader. I jotted down one or two things, but it never occurred to me to think of a job in writing. I thought that writers were like demi-gods. I don't know what I thought.
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In order to actually have a touchscreen in front of me and somehow still be connected to nature, I needed to be able to incorporate natural elements into the song structures. Because that's always been my song-writing accompaniment: nature.
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As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.
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Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.
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I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
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All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.
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I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.
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The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.
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All good writing comes out of aloneness.
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When I first start writing a song, I usually write the title first, then the song, and I'll sing the song in my head and think of a visual of the song. If I can't think of a visual behind the song, I'll throw the song away.
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When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.
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I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.
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Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.
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I worked as an actor for many years. Then I segued to some non-fiction writing.
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I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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Because I was writing verse, my instructor suggested I study Shakespeare. The Shakespeare teacher insisted you couldn't understand the text without seeing it on its feet.
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Whether I'm writing for myself or someone else, I'll always write a song that I would feel comfortable singing.
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I tell young people who ask me about a future in writing not to go into it unless they get married to someone rich.
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My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.
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I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.
