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I feel like the songs that I write are best when they are performed by an ensemble, rather than by one solo instrument.
When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.
I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.
A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.
And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.
Both the writing and the visuals in that sense are very exploratory. It goes back to my rule for myself [in] making it.
There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.
You have to know writing styles well before you can copy them - and then incorporate parts of them into your own style.
You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.
I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.
A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.
Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.
Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.
The Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.
Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.
You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net.
It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.
I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject.
I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.
I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.
I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.
Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.
Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.
In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?
I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.
To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.
Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if I knew!
I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.
Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.
Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.
In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write them.
If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.
Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I like that.
For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.
Writing is a spiritual path. It helps you listen to your heart, trust your inner guidance, and live your life full-out.
I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.
I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.