But at times words can be a dangerous addition to music — they can pin it down. Words imply that the music is about what the words say, literally, and nothing more. If done poorly, they can destroy the pleasant ambiguity that constitutes much of th...
It’s a slow sultry song. She opens her mouth and what comes out can only be described as dripping with sex. The climax of the song comes and the college boys are cat calling her but she doesn't seem to notice at all. She’s completely in the song,...
you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at all. For writing means revealing one self to excess; that utmost of self-revelation and surrender, in which a human being, when involved with others,...
I have a pesky little critic in the back of my mind. He's a permanent fixture and passes judgment on everything I write. In order to placate him, especially when I'm endeavoring to write anything as ambitious as a novel, I have to constantly mutter, ...
Whenever people ask me, "How are your books doing?" or, "How is your book doing?" I just say, "It's okay." I mean, what am I supposed to say? I'm a writer; that means I write because I need to write, because that's how I breathe and that's how I blee...
I write in American slang.
A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.
I write about what I'm going through.
When I write I find a quiet place.
When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.
I write what I'm interested in.
Everything I write is about me.
Trust me, I write fiction.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.
I write out of my intellectual experience.
I write in a small office at home.
When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.
And I love writing. I've always loved writing.
And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.
