About Writing Quotes

A lot of my buddies enjoy the writing part or the studio part, and I love the live show part. That's the reason I got into all this, to play keg parties and bars. I still love playing live.

The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are mysteries to do with everyday life.

To anyone writing about #dawnwall, this is not an effort to 'conquer.' It's about realizing a dream.

I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he'd be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one of mine.

I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.

I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

I have to reach "the poetry condition" to write. Then it is as if the border around me is thinned or blurred or erased or disappeared or dead.

Especially as an artist who has been signed to one of the majors throughout my last ten years, you don't always get to write your own music.

I'll probably be writing as long as I'm breathing.

Before the Olympics, there's always been a part of me that's wanted to write a book about Women's cycling because there isn't one out there and I think there's a lot to be said.

I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I'm acting and writing and I have a pool and a dog.

I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.

When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them

I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology and philosophy and how people's minds work.

In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.

I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.

My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism.

Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.

I think the first trick to writing a feminist work is to write plenty of women. That way you get to write characters, instead of worrying about paradigms.

No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.

A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.

I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't really describe writing. It's in my head.

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

I don't think I'd be able to flat-out write a pop song and make it satisfying to me. I'm ready to make a consistent sound in whatever way I can.

Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.

Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.

We can contemplate the creation of new kinds of vital texts: curate sociology rather than just write it

DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.

Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.

It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating.

Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!

When I hit a period of not being able to write music, I get up and walk away. It's pretty mean but it's true.

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited about at the time.

It seemed to me that people do a rather good job of creating levels of hell all by themselves, and this was something worth writing about.

I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.

To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult to yourself, to other writers, and to your readers.

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.

The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.

Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed.

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it.

Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies.