Writing Quotes
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Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.
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I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.
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I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.
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I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
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I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
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That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.
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When I write I consider it a rhyme. In the studio I consider it laying down vocals. Onstage, I'm entertaining; I don't even think about it.
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I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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When I left the Senate in 1979, there were several publishers who had approached me about writing an autobiography, and I knew that politicians write books for many reasons, but at that time, I just thought I wasn't ready and my story wasn't over, and I knew I had a new life ahead of me.
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Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.
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I would like to know what politicians eat on the campaign trail, what Picasso ate in his pink period, what Walt Whitman ate while writing the verse that defined America, what mid-westerners bring to potlucks, what is served at company banquets, what is in a Sunday dinner these days, and what workers bring for lunch.
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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about. The first song I wrote was called 'Kitten.'
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The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.
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The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being.
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To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
