Writing Quotes
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Women have been writing strong women characters for a long time - hello, Maxine Hong Kingston! - it's just taken mainstream comics a really long while to catch up.
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Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.
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People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records.
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I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.
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When it's your words, and then you watch it connect with an audience as the artist, I kinda reflect back on the writing process and why those words were important to me. And to watch people sing it back, I mean, that kinda means everything because that's the whole point for me - performance and songwriting - is to connect with people.
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I love Gene Weingarten's feature writing with the passion of a thousand suns.
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I remember the excruciating school task of writing a three-page term paper. But, oh, that feeling when I was done! I think I drive myself for that feeling of accomplishment.
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I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.
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An excellent precept for writers: Have a clear idea of all the phrases and expressions you need, and you will find them.
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If I had to name my favorite media personality, it would be a tie between Jon Stewart and Trey Parker/Matt Stone. Honest, wise, funny, and right. Sam Sifton was right up there when he was writing food criticism for the 'New York Times.'
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Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.
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I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.
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Language is a system of signs that express ideas, and is therefore comparable to a system of writing, the alphabet of deaf-mutes, symbolic rites, polite formulas, military signals, etc. But it is the most important of all these systems.
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I find writing a book a slow, intricate process, a kind of obstacle course punctuated with great rewards. But research is always thrilling, and I tend to incorporate newfound material up to the very last minute.
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It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.
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I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy.
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I just start my day really early. Everything happens in the morning time. Writing. Just everything. I can't - I don't know how to work late.
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Generally, my life is absolute chaos, but when I'm writing songs, it's very thought out and regimented.
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I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.
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criticizing the Cambridge School of criticism, e.g. John Middleton Murry and Herbert Read, 'Fine Writing,' pp. 306-307
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I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.
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I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it.
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I've always liked new writing.
