What Is Writing Quotes

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

I worked as hard to write the worst film of the year as I did to write the best film of the year.

I think writing is a difficult thing and you need to suffer a little bit, even if it's just to sit there and think what an idiot you are and how anyone else could do this better than you can.

I know a lot of directors have a whole staff of people trying to find their next film for them. I always just end up writing mine.

I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.

Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.

Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?

I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.

A piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning.

Im very excited to work with everybody on The Bridge - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show is really good. Im very lucky to be a part of it.

If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.

I think it can be fun to write about relationships just because so many people can relate to what you are feeling.

I only write about stuff I know. I don't have a lot of experience with boys and stuff so I write a lot of songs about interesting and strange subjects that people wouldn't write songs about.

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.

Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age.

I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.

I'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books.

I began dabbling in writing when I was 12, and there was never an official start to singing... I just sang my songs because there was no one else to sing them and no one told me to shut up!

Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

I only write about what I do, what happens to me.

The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.

You are in big trouble when you start writing software to impress girls.

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?

Did you write the words, or the lyrics?

You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues of the day. And you have to continue to make good, relevant records.

I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life.

I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.

I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.

And then simultaneously I don't think they're asking you to necessarily write in stone that this is what you're going to do or what you have to do.

I enjoy storytelling. I like to write it, I like to direct it, I like to act in it, I like to produce it. I like to be around storytellers. That's what excites me.

I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.

I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible things that happen every day in the world. Which I have no interest in doing.

I think if you are writing something that you are trying to design for someone else to like that is not necessarily you're demographic, it is a much harder road.

I'm very hard on myself when it comes to writing.

I love to write music. I love melodies, I love playing guitar. I just do it for fun.

Before too long I was playing badly out in some bars around Memphis, but as soon as I learned a few chords I started writing my own stuff.

It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as my story draws to an end, may I say only, 'Thank you. You have been simply wonderful'.

I started writing when I was about fourteen, but when I was about sixteen you know, I heard Outkast, that was pretty much when I was sold on it.

It certainly made a film writing career for me.

I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just write around that.

Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape recorder.

Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.

Writing is difficult. It's a time commitment, it's labor and I'd have to get myself to sit down and actually do the work and outline.

As my kid gets a little bit older, if I feel like I have a little bit more time on my hands, I'd like to get more into developing ideas and writing things.