Quotes of: Song-writing Keyword

What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced ...

Maya Angelou

Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observat...

Michael Connelly

If you are making money writing, you are doing great. If you can support yourself writing, you are a success. I don't care if you're writing textbooks or Pulitzer Prize-winning articles for weighty publications of world renown: If you're writing and ...

Julie Klausner

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I could...

Natasha Trethewey

I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind of academic papers to write anymore. I could write whatever I wanted, and I realized that I actually liked it when I could choo...

Dan Millman

My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on...

Jess Walter

It's wonderful to look back at our old writing and cringe. It simply means we have grown and can write better now. And you found some parts you can be proud of, so when you throw the old writing on the floor and stomp on it, remember to celebrate tho...

Love

You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing...

Fiction Writer's Workshop

Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart. In your writing and your life.

The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life

There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive at the time of writing.

Life Form

Writing is hard, but I don’t want to kill myself trying to write. Not unless I’m writing a suicide note.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.

Philip Pullman

Whenever you are depressed ,write your signature on a paper and write and write finally you ll have pain in you hand than your mind.

pavankumar nagaraj

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Stieg Larsson

I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.

Tracy Chapman

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

Tanith Lee

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

Taiye Selasi

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

Tom Stoppard

Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer