Writing Quotes
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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
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I got a job writing for a financial technology newsletter in Manhattan. I didn't even understand what I was writing about. The newsletter had, like, 2,000 subscribers, and it was $700 a year for a subscription.
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I've always been into writing love songs.
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Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
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When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall. But writing fiction takes gall.
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When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something, I really need to be close to it.
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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
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I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.
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The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.
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You care a lot about these stories you're writing, and you hope that someone else will care, too.
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Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.
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I didn't marry. I didn't have children. I followed the food supply for jobs. I kept writing at night. And that kept me moving. It kept my life disruptive. It broke up many relationships. Was it worth it? Yes.
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Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.
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Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour.
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I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and so, in my writing, I've been drawn back there to the landscape and the light and the type of personality that's revealed.
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If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.
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Style comes only have long, hard practice and writing.
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I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart. My songs bring images to the listener's mind. The object is to transport my listeners to another place, some place sacred and spiritual that will make them glad they took the ride.
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When you ask me to sign your NDA, you're basically saying, in writing, that you don't trust me.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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When I was first writing about Japan, it was at the peak of the Bubble. Bubble popped, but they kept on going. Japanese street style feeds American iconics back into America in somewhat the way English rock once fed American blues back into America.
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There are so many projects that I've written and had to abort because either I felt too distressed by what I was doing to the people who I was writing about, or they couldn't cope with it because their view of themselves was so far removed from reality.
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I knew my destiny from a young age. Something happened when I was very young and I didn't know what it meant. And slowly but surely I know this is only getting better. Writing I love. The acting will carry on as long as I can remember lines.
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I wanted to be as invisible as possible as an artist. I wanted to differentiate between myself and who I'm writing about.
