Writing Quotes
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We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.
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In my life there were a lot of situations where I could have been killed or some officer might have been killed chasing me, a lot of things could be different. Now, you know that's experience you can't buy. And it's there in my rearview mirror and I can refer to it in my writing. I have the experience to talk about things some people only imagine.
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Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.
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Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.
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I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D., it was literally the only hour of the day that I wasn't working. It was nine months of torture, but I made sure I got out to run.
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
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I'm always writing. It might be a bad song, but I'm always writing.
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It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.
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I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.
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Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.
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I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.
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I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.
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I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line.
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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.
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If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.
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At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.
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I am not a performing seal. In your writing, you are tapping into the part that is 'the best' in you. But what you are also filters through in your writing your prejudices, your bitterness. I am not a pretentious person.
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I get very deep into the writing and recording process.
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Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
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For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.
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The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.
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Sometimes I feel drawn to writing about my shortcomings because I'm chock full of them.
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The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.
