Re Writing Quotes

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.

When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth.

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

I'll always be making music. I'd like to do it my whole life - although I also love words and want to write short stories. But right now, my songs are kind of my short stories.

The best songs I write in 20 minutes.

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

I dont fully understand my wifes emotions - and Im supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?

I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.

If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it.

Artists have been getting ripped off since the beginning of time, probably. But on the other hand, it might be nice to write songs. We certainly could.

I don't want to change the way I write my songs, I like the way I write my songs, so I keep 'em the same. I'd like to write more country songs, but other than that, I'm pretty good where I am.

Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.

install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.

I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."

A writer wastes nothing.

Back to work. If I’m [writing] I’m not thinking about the crazy.

I know this much: if you gotta write, honey, you gotta write. Some call it a disease, some a madness. Ah, but I call it love.

But authors before they write should read.

I always loved rapping ever since Snoop said "1-2-3-4," I was repeating lines, but I didn't start writing my own lyrics until I was twelve.

I always listen to music when I write, I need a rhythm to write.

Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.

one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.

Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.

As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, 'But this song is so much better than this song,' and then I kind of ditch that song. It's a long process.

I was in a crazy, private, awesome bubble again, and that's when I started to write.

I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible.

I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.

We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions.

When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

So long as I could write things down I could give up talking for a VERY long time.

Writing is something Ive always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.