Writing Quotes
When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.
Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer.
As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.
For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.
Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.
Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.
When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.
If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.
Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.
I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.
It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.
I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it.
When I was at school I got lines for dropping a big squelchy, loud fart. My teacher, who was a priest, made me write 'I must not fart in class' 100 times. I left that school shortly afterwards.
I usually get my lyrics when I let my mind wander, when you're not really awake, but not yet fully asleep. I keep an open notebook by my bed and then just write whatever comes to me.
The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work.
I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.
Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.
I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life.
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.
I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever.
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.
I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.
On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.