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Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.
It had become boring to write: 'I like Clare Balding'. To say: 'I don't like Clare Balding' is much more newsworthy.
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.
Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
I had a great conversation with Trent Reznor. Trent said, "I'd have a sixpack, too, if I didn't write my own music!"
Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
Though I've spent years working with and creating images, I feel most comfortable expressing myself through writing.
There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something.
Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.
I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.
Writing is both my expression to the world and my way to hide from it - you get who I am without actually seeing me.
When you're in a band and write a song on your own, it isn't fully realized until it goes into somebody else's ears.
Rich kids who write songs about food stamps always piss me off. I'm not going to write any songs about that, either.
It didn’t matter the quality of the writing— Callie’s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.
If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music.
'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.
What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
How my relationship with my parents influenced my writing, really not at all. My dad was a mechanic, my mom a nurse.
I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.
Basically, I wake up, take care of my son for a little while, and then like, "I am gonna write!" And then I wind up.
Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.
Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully.
I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.
I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.
Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.
I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience.
Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.
I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.
Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.
When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.
When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.
I don’t like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels … I keep my deep radical things for my novels.
I like a fine wine. Who can beat that? I don't think it helps writing; I think it's a hinderance. It helps numb you.
That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.
I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.