Writing Quotes
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When a writer is already stretching the bounds of reality by writing within a science fiction or fantasy setting, that writer must realize that excessive coincidence makes the fictional reality the writer is creating less 'real.'
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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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You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
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Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.
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'Despacito' was a song that, from the time I started writing it, I felt that its hook was really catchy and powerful but at the same time very simple.
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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
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I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that's what I do.
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I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I'm doing is driven toward finding or writing songs and putting out hit songs that drive people coming to see me live. Because, at the end of the day, that's what I enjoy the most.
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At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.
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My friend Danny Clinch, who's a photographer, gave me a big, signed, numbered print of a photo he took of Eddie Vedder in Seattle. It's hung in my writing room where I have posters of writers that inspire me. They're all pointing at me. Tom Waits is like, 'Don't sell out!'
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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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A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!
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I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
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First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
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Writing is the easy part. The 'getting it right' part is harder.
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It's really not the genre for me, or the venue, it's the writing.
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I know I'm only as good as the material I've got to work with. I'm not an alchemist, not when it comes to writing or production.
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Hillary Clinton was for the Iran agreement. And I can't support someone who is for the Iran agreement. ... In my case, I'll be writing in General Colin Powell. That, I think, would be the best person.
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I have a reputation for writing all kinds of hard-core, violent things.
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I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.
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I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.
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There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can't afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in - particularly for the English.
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I'm very happy for others to engage in conjecture, but if I was ever conscious of what I'm thinking about when I'm writing, oh my God, I'd be totally lost.
