Quotes of: Song-writing Keyword

We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.

Travis Barker

I write constantly about everything.

Tom Sturridge

I write--because I must write.

Taryn A. Taylor

Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.

Coming to Writing and Other Essays

Write every day. Even if it's only a letter.

The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry

I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey - like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone.

Aretha Franklin

As a writer, I can't really take days off. Writing is like creating an art. Once you stop writing, you can lose your rhythm and context, meaning that your writing may lose its power.

Andrea Hirata

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.

How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling

Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.

Serious Concerns

You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know

A Moveable Feast

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

The Writing Life

The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves.

Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution

When I write to please everybody, it falls flat. When I write what I know, fearlessly, It won't please everybody, but it doesn't fall flat.

Winds of Wildfire

I call 'Community' the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write music. I get to write sketches. I get to write movies. It's the best job ever.

Donald Glover

The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hope...

D. J. MacHale

I see writing and acting as different parts of the same continuum. Writing is better for intense emotion. If you're very angry about something, you shouldn't present it as strongly when you're acting. But if you're really angry and writing about it, ...

Jesse Eisenberg

Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it's about 7 am to noon. For other people it's overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times.

Jon Ronson

In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one experiences oneself during the process of writing.

Herta Muller