Writing Quotes
I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into a gas giant or something.
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.
I think I actually did write about love because I kind of had a fear of it, like we all do, nobody wants to get hurt.
While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.
I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.
Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.
First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.
To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.
Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.
Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.
It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.
Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.
In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.
When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.
As I grew older I found that I really had a knack for rhyming and I pursued that. So by thirteen I got serious about using my writing and rhyming skills. I did it everywhere I could.
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.
While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader. That's more than connecting.
When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.
I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable.
I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.
We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.
I don't know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I know about writing is very instinctive.
It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.
What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.
Some people are mean, and when you look at their page, they only write mean things, but I have a great time with a twitter person. It's not even to promote myself, just to entertain me.
I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.
Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.
I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.
From my most unnoticed actions, my most veiled writing - from these alone will I be understood.
To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?
Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!
In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.