Writing Quotes
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.
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Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.
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As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.
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Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I’m interested in.
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There's no way the writing staff of 'Game of Thrones' haven't read 'The Art of War.' There's definitely an influence on 'Game of Thrones' from this book in both a general way and on the character of Lord Baelish and his strategies.
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The art of biography seems to have fallen on evil times in England. … With us, the most delicate and humane of all the branches of the art of writing has been relegated to the journeymen of letters; we do not reflect that it is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.
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The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.
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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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I think, for me, one of the biggest things that I struggle with is keeping the excitement up when writing a song. A lot of times, I'll get pretty frustrated early on.
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It's just writing about things, feelings, not that we're dark or depressed...just as much as anyone else is.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.
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What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.
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I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.
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The way that I've always viewed my career, I always do what comes to me. I don't write forty songs per album, I write fifteen to twenty songs and pick the ones that represent this period of my life the most.
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This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.
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Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it's a good song.
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American actors are very different to British actors who have generally studied and been brought up culturally with the sense that the writer is the star and that their job is to serve the writing. Whereas Hollywood actors are brought up to believe that the actor is the star, and everything and everybody is in the service of them.
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I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.
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New songs are why artists go on the road. That's why I go on the road. It's a three-prong play. Writing: You're intrigued. Recording: It brings it to life. And then you want to share it.
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I love writing.
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When you have four guys in a room writing songs, it different. It's great - that's what makes a band a band. Audioslave was great.
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About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.
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Anything that you want to write about you can write about in sports.
