Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I've never liked songs that are about writing, or struggling to write. Maybe it's because it's too relatable to me.
I really write emotionally so whatever mood I'm in, or if a chord hits me a certain way that's what I'll go off of.
I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.
All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.
We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.
Really I'm just an actor. The only difference between me and those cats in Hollywood is that I write my own script.
Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
"Good" people are those who don't hold in the thoughts, but find proper outlets like writing, painting, music, etc.
With Attachments, my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.
For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.
I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.
TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.
Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad.
Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.
I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions.
I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.
If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
I bullshit on the phone all day with a variety of people discussing various projects, and occasionally write jokes.
Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.
Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them.
I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.
I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.
Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.
I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.
A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.
It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.
It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.
People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.
Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.
There's no way to learn how to write a hit song. There's no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.
I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.
I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.
Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.
It's exciting for people to define who they are in relation to what I write - whether it be by loving or hating it.
If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.