Writing Quotes
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I'm an author whose strength is in gag-writing.
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Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.
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I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.
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As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.
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I think that if a writer doesn't use her voice, be it in her writing or online or in real life, then what is the point of having one?
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It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.
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I'd work on Garbage or I'd edit a song or writing here, but I was able to do a lot of things with my family. There are things outside of Garbage, the whole band has come to realize that we need things like that. That's why we took that break. Garbage had swallowed us up and had become a full time obsession for us and we needed to escape that and reclaim our old lives.
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My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.
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I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.
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I definitely write about a lot of dreamy, surreal stuff. I do end up going to a surreal world with my music, but I also like the idea of there being really real stuff as well.
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Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
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Sometimes I see people writing the most ridiculous things about me.
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School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.
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When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.
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I've been writing full-time since 1978.
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You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
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With Twitter and Instagram and all of these vehicles where fans can directly interact with you and get your attention, there's a little bit of an entitlement. Like, "Why won't you follow me or write me back?" Well, if I write you back, then I have to write everyone back.
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You learn a lot, writing fiction.
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Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.
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If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece.
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I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.
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I've reinvented myself every year since 1998, and my style's still changing. It's grittier now. I always gotta try something new. I've grown up. Then I was rapping; now I do music, I write albums. But my distinctive voice and style, people still can't catch it. They're still asking me, "What were you saying on that song?".
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I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching 'Scooby Doo.'
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The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.
