Writing Quotes
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Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to express until a sentence comes to my head that will sum up everything about how I'm feeling at the time.
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There's no better way to process pain than to write.
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Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?
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My earlier days were all about playing, writing songs and producing songs. In the early 90's my former wife, Marylata Elton, got tapped to run the music department for DreamWorks. She worked right under Hans Zimmer during the heady days of Prince of Egypt, Shrek, Chicken Run, Gladiator just to name a few. She was and still is, one of the great music executives and has quite a career path of her own.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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The thing about writing jobs is you can't really turn them down. When there's an opportunity, and it's something I want to do, I would do it.
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When I create a TV show, it's so that I can write it. I'm not an empire builder; my writing staff is usually a combination of two kinds of people - experts in the world the show is set in, and young writers who will not be unhappy if they're not writing scripts.
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Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.
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Singer/songwriters spend two or three years making an album, and then it goes up for sale and everybody pirates it and you don't make any money. Whereas, writing a film score you still get presented with a paycheck.
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To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.
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I'm the wife Spike Lee deserves. A white woman, which he says he would never be with, so let's get someone really white. I am Spike Lee's wife from Hell. I'm white and weird and I won't pay enough attention to him. If he does any more of those angry interviews, I'm going to write him and see if he wants the wife he deserves.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.
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I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.
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One of the big ways in which I felt my own writing life shaped by recovery had to do with my relationship to other people's stories. And one of the things I loved most about recovery was the way in which, in meetings and through fellowship, you are constantly kind of paying attention to lives outside of your own.
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Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
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Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.
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I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
