Writing Quotes
-
I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it's not for me.
-
I've been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from people who want to do reality shows, and somebody just offered me a huge amount of money to write my spiritual memoirs. I'm just not interested.
-
I always say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful, and it's only once the play's out that the pain is gone.
-
It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.
-
I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.
-
I'm writing and putting together my next few things. Even during the Red Army process, I've been writing and developing things, so that now that I'm done and with efforts supporting it throughout this process, I'm armed and ready to go with some things that I'm really passionate about.
-
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.
-
It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.
-
Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.
-
Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.
-
I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.
-
People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.
-
Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?
-
We have to diversify, we have to find work we can do that helps other people while helping ourselves, work that has to do with writing that isn't necessarily just writing saleable novels or getting huge advances.
-
Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.
-
I always say to my students, 'If you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.'
-
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
-
When you start a memoir, you think, 'I'm going to blast all the people who were mean to me.' And then you start writing, and you go, actually, it's so much more fun to say nice things about people who were kind and generous to you.
-
My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.
-
People ask me, 'Why angels? Why paranormal? Why teens?' In the beginning, I'm not sure I knew I was starting down any of those twisted paths - paths that now seem so familiar to me that they are downright comforting. In the beginning, I was just writing about love.
-
Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.
-
I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek - this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were painting, some were writing. Any plans you had were kind of like a plan for the next two months.
-
I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.
-
I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that.
