Writing Quotes
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I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less than I could. ... As writers true to ourselves, it will always be hard, and if we're good, we'll always be in trouble. Let's be sure we deserve it.
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When I first seriously decided to become a cartoonist would have been '99/2000, right before 9/11. I've been writing and illustrating stories in the world post-9/11 since then, watching the world change around me.
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I can write for weeks or months sometimes and edit it down to a song. I feel like it's a piece of music that will hopefully stand the test of time and hopefully capture a moment in history if I'm doing it correctly and honestly.
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If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.
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I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.
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I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
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Ever since wars have been fought, guys have been writing their stories.
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I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.
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I've always viewed writing as an outlet for being vulnerable and all that comes with that. You are able to let things all out.
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Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.
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As a children's author, you get to advocate for reading and writing in general, in a way an adult author might not be able to. It's a really interesting dance we do to get literature into the hands of young people and to help them to become literate and become readers; we want them to grow up reading and continue to do so when they're adults.
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Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical.
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Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's not like imagining a flute and then making that sound materialize. That's easy!
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As I've moved through life, I've found that I like things to be as casual and as spontaneous as possible when writing.
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My favorite part about writing a song is really when it's released, and I can see that it relates to so many people.
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With comedy, I think it's so important, especially in TV, to know and trust what the writers are writing and just have it down.
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I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.
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I always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them.
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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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It's strange. No one ever really talked to me about my voice. People started writing about it, and I was like, 'What?' I'm really about my lyrics, but more people were talking about my voice. It's cool, but at first I got upset because I wanted people to focus on the content.
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When I exercise regularly, my writing flow improves.
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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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Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.
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The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.
