Write Quotes
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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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When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.
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He began at once to write out one of these terrible decisions of “Not proven,” which restores liberty, but not honor, to the accused man; which says that he is not guilty, but does not say he is innocent.
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I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.
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I love to write the weird and creepy stuff!
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When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.
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The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
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Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of texts are being produced that call for budding readers rather different from those who studied literature in the past.
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The way I write is that, every time I reintroduced a character, I'd have to face some kind of inner demon.
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Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind, a person can write the best story in the world; but a photograph is absolute.
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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 can't write every day. I have to skip a day in between. If I try to do it every day, nothing comes.
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I start with the joke line and write backward.
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I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.
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Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.
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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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Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.
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I guess what attracted me about the philosophy aspect was that it was realistic. It didn't go off into the realm of imagination land, which I find a lot of religious teachings, actually almost every religious teaching does. I keep meaning to write this up as a blog post, but lately, while driving in my car I've been listening to a religious station that comes on out of Cleveland from the Moody Bible Institute.
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I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
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Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it's very serious, and even in the serious songs, there's sometimes an angle of levity. I think that's just how we communicate naturally and to shy away from that would be, first of all, boring for me, but also it wouldn't ring true to who I am or the way I relate to people or the way we relate to people as a band or the way we relate to the audience. Humor is a big part of it, but we also take our craft very seriously.
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I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully - I love that.
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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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You cannot write well without data.
