I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.
I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.
Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.
As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!
I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.
Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.
You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest to learn was to trust the writing process.
I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.
I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, she's inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.
I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.
If you want to be a writer, you have to keep writing, all the time, and when you're not writing, be thinking about and planning writing.
I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell.
Writing only leads to more writing.
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