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Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.
Somebody once said to me that photography and writing don't get respect because people think that they can do it, too.
Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.
Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.
This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.
It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.
What the devil to do with the sentence "Who the devil does he think he's fooling?" You can't write "Whom the devil- ".
Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say
One of these days I'm going to write a book on drops. That ought to sell. The shot's become more popular than putting.
Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.
Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place.
I definitely fall in love quickly, and I'm very in love with being in love. But it is hard for me to write about love.
P.S. If you do not receive this, of course it must have been miscarried; therefore I beg you to write and let me know.
Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.
Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.
I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.
When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.
I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.
If I wish to be well in my mind, then I must write, and there is no cure for my ambition, and thank the Lord for that.
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.
If love were endless, if it were on tap, it wouldn't hit us the way it does. And we certainly wouldn't write about it.
Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform.
I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.
If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.
In Les Mots I explain the origin of my madness, of my neurosis. This analysis may help the young who dream of writing.
When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down.
Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.
I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.
I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again.
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing.
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.
Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me.
If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.
The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.
I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.
There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.
There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.
The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.
I'd decided to write him and tell him to leave me alone. Please, in a nice way, go away, I really can't deal with you.
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.
When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.