Write Quotes
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Just write it down. Its much easier to go back and change it once its already on the screen.
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For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."
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You have to live your story before being able to write your story.
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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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The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.
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I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!
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Artists have been getting ripped off since the beginning of time, probably. But on the other hand, it might be nice to write songs. We certainly could.
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Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.
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Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I couldn't write. Because I'm obsessed and compelled. Because I'd be utterly useless at anything else.
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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
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I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
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The only reason people write is because they are not wonderful men.
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More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.
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Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.
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To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.
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Sit down and write it down with a pen and then make up your mind you are going to do it. Don't spend any time thinking of why you can't. The fun is not in getting it, the fun is in growing. Goals are to help us grow, goals are to help us get. The getting is a site benefit; the growth is the real benefit.
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How can you contrive to write so even?
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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I love the Juno – I haven’t mastered the JP-80 yet but the Juno is so easy to use. I love the arpeggiator. I love the sounds, they’re all the sounds I like to write with.
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Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.
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The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.
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I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
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I have a really, really difficult time with dramaturgy sometimes in America, because I write about other cultures. I write about a culture that is very difficult, it is very foreign to a North American. A lot of people don't know about what's happening.
