Writing Quotes
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I was in a band at school, and almost from the day we started, I started writing songs, just because that seemed what you did.
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Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.
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I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.
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I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm interested in writing and getting out there is stories about anti-heroes and people you should just not ordinarily root for - trying to figure out a way of appealing to people they wouldn't normally appeal to.
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Writing a log line helps you define - for yourself - the essential elements of the plot. It will also let you know immediately if major components of the plot are missing.
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Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.
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When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.
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Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.
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To make a movie about someone who is thinking and writing is scary. There's no big love story, no action, no drama. It's not an easy task.
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I always knew I was going to do something with music, but with my whole family being in the business, acting was something that was just mine. But when I was 20 or 21, I started writing songs and felt the itch to make a record.
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
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Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.
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I'm constantly preparing. Material hits me; I'm always writing. I go back and listen to my shows and just prepare and put my set together. But the day of, I like to have some downtime. A nice lunch is important for me.
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I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.
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Writing comics and drawing comics is a really very specific art form. It's a lot easier to get it wrong than it is to get it right.
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[Writing something original from scratch], the initial process is way different. But once it exists and you start to actually work on making it real, then the approach is kind of the same, for me anyways.
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I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.
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When I first started writing 'Still Missing,' I didn't actually realize I was writing a thriller. I thought it was more women's fiction, but during the many years of rewrites, I kept taking out the boring parts, and then my agent informed me that I had written a thriller.
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The foreign directors are always fumbling about in obscurity, and the critics are always writing about the juxtaposition of black and white and the existential dilemma and all that shit, to disguise the fact that they don't understand the first damn thing about it either.
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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
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To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago.
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So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
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When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.
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As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.
