What Is Writing Quotes

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

Writing a record is like dating a few men at once. You take them to the same restaurants to see if they measure up, and at some point you decide who you like best.

I write music every day.

When I first started writing lyrics and stuff, I was writing it to garage, and obviously garage kind of progressed to grime.

I feel like in every song I write, I always write a little darker bit.

There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an ability to make you feel that he is writing for you alone.

When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.

What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

If you’ve ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don’t write as well as you do yet are rich and famous while you struggle onward, this is the reason. They are great directors.

And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, Convert this to Android format.

You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.

I don't like Larry Merchant. He thinks he knows everything about a sport that he was never in. He walks around with papers and studies what he writes, he just pisses you off.

Justin Martyr says that he was impressed in his study of the Old Testament, at the seriousness and contents of these writings, and became convinced that Jesus fulfilled these texts.

Never be embarrassed or ashamed by anything you choose to write.

It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.

What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

I've always been sort of entrepreneurial. ... I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could write my own thing and not worry about Hollywood finding me.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.

I write titles that are confrontational. I write titles that make people want to pick up a book and find out more about it. I write good books; I write great titles though.

I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at least 100 books on that topic.

I think it's more helpful to keep your books sort of a singular focus. Get it said, get it said well, fascinate people with your words and then write another book.

I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write big, big, long books.

The premise, to me, is the most important thing that you have to know going in. It's the problem as you see it. So I write down the problem as I see it. That is the premise for my book.

You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?

Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.

I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.

I had been writing professionally since 1988

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.

For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published.

I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.

If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

Apple doesn't have to write code, which equals speech, when it doesn't agree with what the government wants to do. And it's not that the government can't make you do anything you don't want to do.

I'm thrilled to be in sci-fi because they write the women very strong, and you don't often get that on television.

I don't like writing with real people in mind.