For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.
When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode.
If I do what I really want to do, I'm not going to do a typical commercial Broadway show, so I'm going to write what I want to write.
I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.
In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.
I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat a lot of raw carrots.
My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.
'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a great play. I had to read it for school when I was younger, but I started writing scripts after that. That's what got me into writing.
I was just writing songs because, if a song shows up, you've gotta write it. I didn't know what to do with them. I didn't have any faith in my voice.
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do.
I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it's really nice. I bought a typewriter, and I really like to write on the typewriter sometimes. It's a fun little hobby.
I write across several genres. I’m a slut for words. I can’t keep it in my literary pants.
I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.
In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.
I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.
Each day I feel a little differently; some times I try to write something that's fictitious and then there's other times where I try to write something that's true.
I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.
I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not only challenge but also entice the reader into the lives of children.
My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant.
I was a kind of angsty teenager and I would write diaries and write stuff down all the time. Sometimes I get to the level on stage where I'm singing and it feels heavy, but not always.
