Writing Quotes
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There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.
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I've always been drawn to the real stuff and the stuff that feels authentic. And so when I'm writing songs, that's what I try to do.
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Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.
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I'm very flash and burn - the first thing that comes to mind is obviously the best idea, and that's because it should come out of a natural place, and if you don't do that then you're writing someone else's music, not your own.
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My personal writing philosophy is to try and write better every day.
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Writing has never been a driving force within me.
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Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.
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I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.
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Unlike a typical professional, I can't quit my job to become a full-time author; I don't have that luxury. For me, writing is therapy; if I choose to write full-time, it might start feeling like work.
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The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.
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There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand, no poet that I know of who writes in English in the United States is anything but a humanist. So all poets, including myself, seem to be under that umbrella. We just don't have Rush Limbaugh poets, Ann Coulter poets.
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I always believe writing is an indispensable part of one's political armoury.
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I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.
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I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.
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I had a lot of notes and fragments and observations that never amounted to anything. After the Wall had gone down, so many people were writing about Berlin, I didn't have the same urgency or feel enough authority.
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Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.
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I get a little myopic in the act of doing any writing. I think I'm not as interested or not as able to write about balance, because I think there's something I want to try to get at. I'm trying to get at something about the experience of growing up or about families.
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I always felt my writing could benefit from the attention of established writers. I knew my work could grow and be better.
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I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.
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I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
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Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.
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I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
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It's assumed that if you're a woman, you want to be the prettiest version of yourself. It always put me in a bad mood. It was like, "OK, I'm successful. I'm supposed to be happy. Well, why aren't I happy?" Part of the problem was that my looked-at-ness had become a priority over my art making. Over and over again it was like, "I don't have time for this. I want to work." I love writing. I don't love somebody putting false eyelashes on me.
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Once you finish a book, it doesn't belong to you anymore. You're giving it to other people. If something in what a writer writes can excite the imagination and the feelings of the reader, then that reader carries it around forever. Nothing is more vivid than good fiction.
