Quotes of: Song-writing Keyword

When I write, I see the character inside out, not outside in.

Debasish Mridha

I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.

James M. Cain

I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.

Jane Green

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

Leslie Banks

I write all the time, even if it means recording in the hotel room. I write on the plane, anywhere, anytime I'm inspired or have ideas.

Flo Rida

'The Master and Margarita' is deeply to do with the unconscious. It is a story about a man who writes a story in a time when he's not supposed to write that story: the story of Pontius Pilate.

Simon McBurney

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

Rick Riordan

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

Annie Lennox

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

Robert Morgan

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

Seamus Heaney

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.

Sarah McLachlan

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

Anthony Doerr

I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still in love with writing and directing.

Shane Carruth

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

Umberto Eco

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

Alanis Morissette

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.

Dani Shapiro

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence.

Louis Sachar

When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

Trent Reznor

I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.

Abraham Pais