Write Quotes
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I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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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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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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I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
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I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
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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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If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that...hard.
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When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
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If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
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At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.
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I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole self - all of those different aspects of it.
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It's hard for me to speak, whether in English or Afrikaans. The reason I write is because I cannot speak. I feel blunt.
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I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.
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I write songs simply because I get a kick out of making them exist. I'm also sort of addicted to the recording studio, and making albums is my idea of fun.
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It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours.
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You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
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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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We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s skin, so to speak. That’s why we read novels, and also why we write them - to experience more life, through imagination.
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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 wasn't the classic comedy type; I wasn't bullied or extrovert. I was more the ambitious literary one who wanted to write clever little plays.
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We join God’s story and allow him to write our stories by engaging in his mission to the world as his image bearers and commissioned representatives.
