Writing Quotes
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If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he would paint the same idea until he felt like he maybe got it right, and I try to do the same thing with my writing.
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I sit and I write automatically. I don't really try to write. My subconscious mind takes over and writes the songs for me. Songs come very easily for me. When I'm inspired, it takes me 20 minutes to write a song.
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Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
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Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
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My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.
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I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match to my writing ability.
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Good writing does not come from verbiage but from words.
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I co-wrote and produced 'Sticky Fingers' with Catlin Adams, who directed it. I learned a lot writing and producing with Cat. I spent as much time as I could in the cutting room with her. All the producing experience that I had helped.
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Every writer dreams of having a backyard cottage, similar to Dahl's 'writing hut.' English cottages and charming huts might seem out of reach, but a good carpenter could build a modest cottage on the cheap.
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On the craft level, writing for children is not so different from writing for adults. You still have to have a story that moves forward. You still have to have the tools of the trade down. The difference arises in the knowledge of who you're writing for. This isn't necessary true of writing for adults.
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My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.
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I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.
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Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got to take more trouble over reading or cease to regard notes as pretentious and a sign of bad poetry
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A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.
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I am a drinker with writing problems.
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I've written under the radar for quite some time, and I always looked at editing as writing.
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When you give up a bit of work don't (unless it is hopelessly bad) throw it away. Put it in a drawer. It may come in useful later. Much of my best work, or what I think my best, is the re-writing of things begun and abandoned years earlier.
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To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.
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I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y in view - whether it's a reader, a prize or a sale.
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I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.
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I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.
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Somehow, the whole idea of me writing art reviews was just too much of a complicated thought, but I liked art, and later on I just realized that it would be perhaps a pleasure, and so I decided to do it for 'Art in America' - a lot.
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The act of writing itself distracts the thoughts, and what is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed.
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Writing at the 'American Spectator' in the 1990s, we threw everything we thought would stick at President Clinton.
