Writing Quotes
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Write drunk; edit sober.
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Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
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In writing and speaking, three is more satisfying than any other number.
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I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it's all sort of one big mess of creative output.
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.
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Writing is more important than being a writer.
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I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.
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The mental state I'm in is completely different, but the act of trying to write is the same. I mean, in all instances you try to write good sentences. But in a novel you're free to do whatever you want, and in the autobiographical works you can't make things up.
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I believe artists should be able to step into other people's situations, contexts and cultures and work from there. If artists don't have that freedom, then, as someone has said, are we all writing our autobiographies?
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Be ruthless about protecting writing days....althoug h writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it.
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I enjoy writing.
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Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or, if this way of putting it seem indecorous and abominable, he very often writes so well that you are loth to believe he could ever have written thus extremely ill.
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The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up. I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.
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When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.
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I wanted to go back to writing for myself and my fans. I built my own recording studio, started my own label, and decided to use the Internet to sell my records.
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Be patient, work hard and consistently, have faith in your writing, and don't be afraid to listen to constructive criticism.
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We [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] spent a lot of time writing, for lack of a better word, this manifesto about what we wanted to do. We wanted to find work that was relevant socially and that didn't take audiences for granted.
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I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.
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I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.
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Writing has never been a driving force within me.
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When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
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It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.
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It's weird for me to try and write punk songs - I'm almost scared of it.
