What Is Writing Quotes

Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of Christ in Hicksville.

When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what the person who created the show thinks is funny.

The writing is what's most important to me.

With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing.

So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.

In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.

I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else.

I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.

I didn't have an agent. I would just write down that I was with my brother's agency, and then the agency would get calls and say that they had no idea who I was.

Having been in Congress, you know that's part of our responsibility the constituent has a problem, We're supposed to write back and say, 'Well I can't do anything' That's not what they elect you for.

Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music again.

If you don't have to write songs, why write them? I've got enough where I don't really feel the urge to write anything additional.

I don't write the songs; I just write 'em down.

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

In the meantime [1965-67], [Bob] Dylan was again writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Visions of Johanna," "Just Like a Woman," and "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands."

I'm always writing new songs and doing them live, and I may do it for a week or two, and then never do it again.

Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy.

Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

I'm not sure sports writing is an art.

Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.

I always write the script by myself.

I don't write any kind of sequel or remake.

Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.

I realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not doing well in the new-millennium America.

I can't personally drink or fight too much nowadays because I have to be perky in the morning in order to write.

I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on around me.

I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.

The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good.

I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck.

I was unhappy and I couldn't figure out what was the matter. And he told me to go take a writing course. And I didn't even know that one could learn to write in writing courses.

You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.

Maybe the hardest lesson is the one I have to learn over and over again, that each story is its own animal, that every story I write is going to come only with difficulty.

The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work.

I do different work, teaching and running around visiting universities and bookstores, and that prevents me from writing. But it's nice to be wanted as a writer.

Weirdly the writing experience has not really changed that much except it used to be that I was busy because I had to work a couple of jobs to earn money, so I didn't have time to write.

I'd like to go the Cher route and act and sing and write and have a TV show and do it all.

I'm a really visual artist, and I love writing treatments for music videos, photo shoots, fashion, and all the visual parts that go along with making an album.

I tend to get a little quirkier and crazier with my lyrics and come from a different angle when I'm writing for myself.

When I write for myself, I just get to be myself.

It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.

I love writing with Adam Lambert. He's really funny and very fun, he's a great friend.

It's just funny that anybody would care at all to take apart the words that I write. It's kind of cool!

Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.

It just happens I write fast and always have done.

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.