Writing Quotes
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I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.
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I've been a list maker for years, even before I was a musician. I was always writing things down and kept long lists of things that would make good album titles and things like that. I'm constantly thinking in terms of songwriting.
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A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.
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I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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When evidence emerged that Clinton was a devoted mother, Margaret Carlson writing in 'TIME' found her guilty of 'yuppie overdoting on her daughter.'
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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I really absolutely loved writing my first book.
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Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.
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When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time.
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Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.
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My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.
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I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.
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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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I feel like I know how to write plot.
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Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
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I had never written about what it's like to live the life of a writer, and I had never read a book that combined talking about the life of writing and how you can do it, how you can stand it, how you can emotionally manage it, with the choices that we all make on the page.
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The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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Anyone involved with songwriting will testify to the fact that each song, no matter how pure or from the heart, has its own story, its own peculiar way of getting written.
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I love writing romance, along with science fiction and fantasy - and my books usually meld all three to some degree.
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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'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I am and will look over my shoulder and read what I'm writing.
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Of the authors writing in English, I'd mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I'm afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
