Write Quotes
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You really have to love the song you’re working on so this carries through if it takes a few weeks to get every last detail right. So the key is, write what you like and don’t worry about getting your hands dirty.
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Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst.
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I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.
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I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.
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Going on unemployment was a total low point for me, but it was also the point when I promised myself I'd write every day from 9 to 5. I tried to make the most out of every situation that came along.
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It's a funny habit to write encyclopedia entries. It's not a mass taste.
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I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
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I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.
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We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.
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I love you now as I write this, and I love you now as you read this.
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I'm just going to keep trying to write music for me because that's what got me here.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the human condition and maybe more cathartic.
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You cannot write well without data.
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When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
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My big thing is that I love to write. I want continue writing and performing.
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All I can do is knuckle down, write something really good, and hope someone responds to it.
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Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.
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It's much more important to write than to be written about.
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Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could have broken out. This delay makes it possible for me to write today, in the same way I used to lie in the scorching sun for a whole day at sixteen, or make love wihout contraceptives at twenty: without thinking about the consequences
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I start my process hand written, and then I dump it in. It's like you're getting a second draft 'cause when I put it in the computer, I fix it and change stuff. That's my process. I picked that up from speaking to Neil Gaiman and Joe Hill. I was messing around with the idea of starting to write more, writing a book and doing things like this, and I reached out for advice. They were like, "Oh, we hand write, and then we dump it all in." I was like, "Great! There's no more blank pages."
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I never took any writing classes or planned to write. But I was working as an advertising copywriter in the late '80s and thought, 'What a shame there has never been a decent book on Jean Harlow,' then thought, 'Why don't I write one myself?' being kind of an idiot and not having the slightest idea what I was getting myself into.
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When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.
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I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more than a man, because after all, men also speak their bodies when they write. Everything is implicated in the work of a writer.
