About Writing Quotes

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

It wasn't until I hung out with Dead Prez and understood how to make, you know, raps with a message sound cool that I was able to just write "All Falls Down" in 15 minutes.

I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with Cockney. I'll focus on adventures in story, themes and structure instead.

All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.

In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code.

Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.

People say if bees die out, the world would end apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document and people believe this.

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.

Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.

I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that

A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.

Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All other kinds of writing simply express.

I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is great. But then, when I do stand-up, I love getting my own point of view out there.

The best user experiences are enchanting. They help the user enter an alternate reality, whether it's the world of making music, writing, sharing photos, coding, or managing a project.

I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour.

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

I'm pretty much living my dream job, but one day I would love to dedicate more time to writing and performing my own music.

Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.

I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.

As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.

We leaned on family, church, school, friends and sports. That's basically all we had. All those things really shaped my life and shaped me musically. It's why I write the way I do.

If I don't stay creative and if I don't stay in the studio and keep writing and recording, I get kind of depressed. I can't quite remember what I'm supposed to be doing with myself.

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.

Live your life as if you are writing your Biography.

I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.

All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I’ve ever written was because I don’t have a choice. I write stories because I can’t wait to tell it, I can’t wait to see how it ends.

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it.

Sometimes performing someone else's song is more difficult than writing your own.