Writing Quotes
-
To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.
-
In writing and speaking, three is more satisfying than any other number.
-
I'm halfway through a novel set in two time frames - Austin in the 1960's and Alpine Texas in present day. It started out to be a small, lighthearted, humorous book about family relationships; I was tired of writing war stories and tragedies.
-
I've always expressed myself best through writing. I've gotten out all of my deepest feelings that way for as long as I can remember.
-
My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's Fahrrd & the Great Mauser stories.
-
I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing.
-
Once a piece of writing gets to a moment where it's not going to get much better than it already is, marinate it. If you still like the piece, send it out and see what others think. If not, it's time to put it away and forget about it for a while.
-
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.
-
I just had a really crappy time in school and I spent a lot of time writing songs and not doing work. I started talking to Noah - Panda Bear - about recording a really solid album, spending a lot of time on it to get it to sound exactly the way we wanted it to.
-
Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think.
-
The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.
-
Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.
-
I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than to make films. All I needed was a pencil and a piece of paper, whereas filmmaking was something I had no access to.
-
Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.
-
I learned that comedy is born out of strong characters. I won't begin writing a character until I have a clear take on them.
-
I think that's the great thing for us - we're a band full of songwriters, and we're capable of writing all kinds of songs.
-
Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.
-
Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.
-
Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.
-
Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.
-
I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it's all sort of one big mess of creative output.
-
I was writing, writing all the time, in my head, looking out at the world.
-
I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.
-
Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task.... In order to dive into those recesses and lay them open to the reader in a striking and intelligible manner, 'tis necessary to assume a certain freedom in writing, not strictly perhaps within the limits prescribed by rules.
