Writing Quotes

Don't write it right, just write it, and then make it right later.

Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one.

I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.

I have so many songs, it's ridiculous. I love so many different types of music and tend to write all over the map, style-wise. R&B, rock 'n' roll, screamers, pop, good-time songs.

Every time I'm not on a project, I'm writing or in the studio or doing gigs DJing.

I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.

To write, you have to know how to act and know about directing. To act, you also need to know how to write and direct.

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

You write a lot of bad songs before you write good ones. It takes time!

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

When I have time, I write other things. I'm working on a book, I paint, I sculpt, I play with my dog, I watch television - I catch up on South Park or movies or whatever I've missed, normal stuff.

I try to write in a way where the lyrics have many meanings and you won't really know what's behind it.

I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

Having room to run and having just the space to use your imagination and create stories out of everyday life, I think that had a lot to do with me wanting write. And write songs

I've learned through writing that if something made me feel deeply or anything at all, it was worth it.

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.

When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be, like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'

The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love.

I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

And you know there’s nothing like writing a song about someone who’s mean to you, and just makes your life miserable…and then winning a Grammy for it.

I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out.

I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

I want to write a song for someone who has just fallen in love or someone single and living their live.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

Sometimes when relationships end, you write an e-mail and say everything you wish you said. Sometimes you don't push send.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions.

If guys don't want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn't do bad things.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

I don't talk about my personal life in great detail. I write about it in my songs, and I feel like you can share enough about your life in your music to let people know what you're going through.

I write songs about what I go through.

If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life.

I love writing thank-you notes. There's something very nostalgic to me about the feel of a card and putting pen to paper. How many times in our lives are we required to put pen to paper anymore?

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

Like once we picked Jim Norton as the head of security, the writing flows pretty easily.

In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.

Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.

My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.