Writing Quotes
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I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.
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Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great writing. If there's something about the script, that's what I go for, although I know that that doesn't always translate because sometimes it's about the vision of the director.
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When I started writing about art, there were no curators.
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That's what my life is, writing songs.
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I think I'm genuinely sincere, and that's what hopefully makes it work. I take that very seriously when I'm writing.
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I've been writing since 1973. I've written nonfiction things of that nature, but I'm probably best known for crime fiction and, to some extent, horror fiction.
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People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.
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Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.
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I think I write more outspoken than the average rapper.
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Music can be such a vulnerable thing, so when you're delivering a vocal or writing a piece of music, it's easy to get sideways.
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I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.
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There have been many days when I have had to work up to writing 'Irredeemable' because I just didn't feel like wallowing in that world, feeling those emotions... but that's the process.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your soul.
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When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things I was feeling.
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I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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Part of the fun of writing is having messages. Without them, it's all gunfights and car chases, and none of it means anything.
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Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.
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When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.
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You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
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The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
