About Writing Quotes

Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

Writing songs always trumps whatever else was on the schedule, it really is the most important and can be so fickle, you have to grab it when it's there.

I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among a good number of them.

I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about.

I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories. And you need solitude to figure out your next step.

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.

The biggest idea that I have learned - I basically went in to write a book about Adam and Eve, ended up writing a book about love. And what did I learn? Love is a story you tell with another person.

Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.

Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder.

I love a little more driving rock and roll vibe and that kind of music has always spoke to me. I guess it just rubs off when I'm writing music.

Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.

What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published anything before.

A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had said to themselves, "I don't know what he's doing."

It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's - don't. I'm going to send out for some fried chicken.

Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.

It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration.

My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was the paramount importance of the "West" epitomized by Cincinnati.

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.

When I first began writing music I was really inspired by the French electro scene.

In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.

I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.

I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous thoughts.

I remember writing 'All I Want Is You' and hoping it would get me out of trouble. I haven't stopped writing songs or getting into trouble since.

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

I think I'm in a really nice position, where I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one, but right now the main thing in my mind is writing songs.

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.

When you're an artist you're speaking about life, you're talking about your experience here on the planet. So essentially, that's what I do when I'm writing songs.

One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me.

When it comes to writing songs, I've always got to be commissioned to do it. I won't write unless someone has got a real genuine purpose for it.

Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say that I've been lucky in that I'm amused by what I do - sufficiently amused.

I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

Directing is such a crucial part of the writing process; you start directing and you see what does not work. "Oh, God, what was I thinking?" and then you can rearrange it.

The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.