Write Quotes
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The only responsible way to write about anything is with honesty.
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I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.
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I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.
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I probably write 10 things to every one that I want to use. It's easy for me to write something that's so poppy that it's wrong for me. If I was 22 years old... it's easy for me to write something that's less mature than I am or ought to be. I'm looking for something that acts my age.
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Whatever you write about me, don't make it sad.
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But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story.
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I write about things that tear me apart, and it's all very personal to me. It's funny to hear people disassemble the lyrics. If they get it wrong, it almost means more to me, because it's morphed into something that is meaningful to them.
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So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
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If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.
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I feel it strong in my heart and sing it and write it just because that's a part of Ben Harper, that's just a part of me, that makes me who I am.
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It's easy to get into an easy routine but the problem with that is you can tend to write the same song over and over again.
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Our image, if we have one, has been shaped only by me, Tom and Richard and the songs we write.
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I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.
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I heard some stuff recently from Julian Casablancas, and his solo stuff is amazing. If I could write with anyone, it would be him.
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I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it’s possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down and write about something. There is something in that thing that I can write about. It’s very much like a rehearsal. An exercise, in a way.
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Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists are like Lou Reed, kind of the classics - Bob Dylan and stuff like that.
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I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.
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I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright.
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In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days when, as Bonnoure says, the letters wrote themselves one by one, either in their gibbosity or else in their pretentious elegance? In those days, spelling was a drama, our drama of culture at work in the interior of a word.
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.
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Every night before you go to bed write down three things good that happened to you that day. That's pretty much all it takes to get a happiness boost over time.
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It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret.
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In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.
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There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.
