Writing Quotes
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Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.
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I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
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I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.
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Quite honestly, most people are quick to "write someone off." But our God is a God of the second chance. Learn from One who is patient with you, and you'll learn to be patient with others.
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Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Never put off writing until you are better at it.
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I think all writing is an attempt to complicate and subvert the dominant narrative. Writing personalizes statistics. It puts a face and a name on a number. I suppose in that sense it's always political.
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With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner child to come up with interesting perceptions.
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Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.
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Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.
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Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
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I have my writing and acting and producing and directing, and my younger brother has his music and his acting.
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Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.
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I can't imagine writing a novel without some sound. When you're facing a few hundred blank pages, silence can be cold.
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Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before.
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The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.
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I started writing when I was about thirteen.
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Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating a piece of crude, contemptible, adolescent, anti-American wickedness, when, in fact, he would have succeeded, as prophetic sentry, where Orwell failed.
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The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading
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Journalism is very much public writing, writing with an audience in mind, writing for publication, and frequently writing quickly. And I know that when I worked daily journalism it really affected my patience with literature, which I think requires reflection, and a different kind of engagement.
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Poetry is poetry. My process is I try to write the best poem I can, in the best way to communicate whatever it is the poem is trying to communicate, and then I try to figure out the best way to present that poem to a live audience. It's all craft, just different stages of craft.
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Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.
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The lowest stress environment is the radio show. I am not on camera and I can let the music do the talking. The rest is more highly pressurized or in the case of writing, time intensive task. I say yes to all of it and like all of it but the radio show, by nature of what it is, is the least hassle.
