Write Quotes
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I definitely use life experiences. For me, it's extremely hard to write about something I don't know anything about. If I've never been angry, then I can't write about being angry. We're human beings so we all have emotions. To just have that knowledge, it definitely helps me out as a singer songwriter.
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he council that will write the constitution should be elected, not hand-picked ... The constitution will be illegal if it is written by a council, whether that is chosen by the Americans or by what is called the Governing Council or by anyone else.
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I kind of live by this old thing that time will tell whether people are going to write about this or that; all we can do is be who we are and make records we love, and everything else will sort itself out.
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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.
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You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.
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I don't have a journal; I write music.
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I actually write some pretty tough jokes. I don't want to push the "soft" angle too much.
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Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.
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I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
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We try to not write stories based on reaction. We try to write them based on character integrity as we understand it and observe it.
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I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.
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All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well.
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And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.
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Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
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The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
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Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given . . . this is who you are, and from where you ought and need to write.
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All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
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Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.
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You talk to people and they seem really nice and then you read what they write and it's very disillusioning. You have to deal with how people let you down in terms of that. Because I think I'm basically a nice person and I think I'm a real person, and a lot of people aren't.
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I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what happens.
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When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.
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I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
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I try to write every day, preferably first thing in the morning. Of course, there are days when something happens to interfere with this ideal schedule. Then I try to find time later in the day. I usually work at home, but sometimes, for a change I'll go to a library or a cafe. And I like to read poetry before I sit down to write.
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I write songs in batches and then record them and then can't write again for ages. I try and build one song upon another, they may not obviously look inter-related but often one song acts as a springboard into another.
