Writing Quotes
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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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Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.
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Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.
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It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.
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After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.
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It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing all the time. It's the greatest secret of the world.
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I got my first laptop, what I learned to do everything on, when I was 17 or 18, and I had no idea what I was doing. I'd only ever produced on an 8-track before. When I was about 13 and writing songs, I would write on that. It would literally be eight tracks, and that's all I had.
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Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.
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I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.
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It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
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I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to write something, I start reading what I think of as good literature. I read things with wonderful language.
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The creative process doesn’t change much. When writing a song, you’re looking for melody, rhythm and words that people can relate to.
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I took a lot of writing courses.
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The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from your subconscious, is beautiful - it's thrilling. When you're editing, which is your conscious mind, it's like torture.
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The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.
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I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
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Writing is inherently scary.
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When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.
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I love writing. It makes me so happy.
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The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.
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I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and as soon as I figured that out I never looked back.
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Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.
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I like writing characters that seem different from one another. So if you were to hypothetically look at a bunch of lines from books I've written, just out of context, hopefully you would be able to determine who said what. That's the goal, anyway. I try to strongly differentiate through dialogue.
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Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.
