Write Quotes
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Every redneck's dream is to write a song and have it go on a fishing show.
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Write it down in your own handwriting.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know what will be the end.
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In the case of Roadcase Royale, everyone in the band has a lot to offer as a writer and producer.
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I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it.
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You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.
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When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.
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The world is full of paper, write to me.
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My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.
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The best way is not to read as much from the media and what they write.
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But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.
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I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by governments and armies, by despair and tragedy.
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I'd always read a lot about rock 'n' roll growing up, but the first real thing I set out to do was become an English professor. Even so, I always hoped in some way or another that I would get to write about music in a popular - non-academic - format.
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My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion.
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We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.
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I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write.
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It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.
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The energy and generosity of spirit of the people I meet everywhere I perform is what inspires me to make music and through the music, we share a bond even if we may never have met. As long as there is a single person who may find something they are looking for or a feeling they need in my music, I will continue to write for that person.
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Lila is right, one writes not so much to write, one writes to inflict pain on those who wish to inflict pain. The pain of words against the pain of kicks and punches and the instruments of death.
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It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.
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The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it.
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I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!
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My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.
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Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.
