Writing Quotes
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If I have to try and write one more country single, I'll lose my mind.
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When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting into their truth and to justify what they do.
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The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force and quality the way you do - just as your friends (thank heavens) don't also fall in love with the person you are going on and on about to them.
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Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
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I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?
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Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who lets you cleanse yourself that way.
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Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.
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Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
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When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.
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I think the most important thing is just to write. It sounds so simple, but sometimes it's not. You can get so distracted - -by having to work other jobs, or what other people have to say about your writing - -but the one thing that really matters is that you just keep going, especially when you're working on a novel. It's so easy to get discouraged and give up.
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My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability to lie with a straight face as a child.
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With my students I give them lots and lots of guided writing. Part of it is as simple as writing a lot but not toward anything. The mind floats. Then I help them see where the language has heat. If we do this a lot in class, students eventually relax into this writing practice and enjoy it. Even just that - writing pleasure without the anxiety of "audience" or "grade" or "success" - is a kind of impetus toward the unfamiliar.
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A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.
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I love the idea of writing these huge, bombastic characters; I'll stay in the superhero world as long as I can.
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Good directing is good writing and good casting.
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I try not to think too much about my writing process - I tend to feel my way forward and find more insights that way.
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The way to write well is to live intensely.
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I'm not that guy who thinks I have all the answers. Writing is a means of communicating, and if enough people say, 'I don't get it,' it's worth looking at.
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Writing is a solitary occupation; we don't really have any colleagues.
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I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
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I was never writing for commercial success. It's nice that it has come, but it is not important.
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The great artist is the simplifier.
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Because I wake up late, my day is often short. I'm much more active in the evenings, during which I alternately read, write, needle-point, smoke, email, and despair over my decision last June to put my television and DVD player out on the street because I wasn't getting enough work done.
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There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.
