About Writing Quotes

So many bands write about the same s - . It gets real boring after a while.

No person writes to win awards.

The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.

I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.

Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible.

If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

I had e-mail in 1984! I had an e-mail address then, which means that all you could write to was Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. There were three of us, writing to each other.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

Art is craft, not inspiration.

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

Truth is always duller than fiction.

Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.

We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?

Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren’t distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.

I've been on the road for so long that it's a part of my being. Even after all these years, I love playing. I love recording. I love writing. I love rehearsing. I love touring. I love all that stuff.

Christians always write to me threatening me with Hell. Strange how they think this vindicates them and their religion. Threats are the hallmark of a wicked creed.

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross.

Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It’s always heartbreaking.

I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too.

I didn't want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.

When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts.

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.