Quotes of: Song-writing Keyword

Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.

Arthur Phillips

It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It's that quick.

Harvey Pekar

I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.

Heather O'Reilly

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

E. L. Doctorow

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

Jane Asher

I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.

Jostein Gaarder

Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.

Jason Statham

I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.

Leo Burnett

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

Mark Haddon

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

Richard Harding Davis

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

Dean Koontz

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.

David Byrne

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

Josh Radnor

I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.

Margaret Forster

I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

Daniel Radcliffe

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

Elizabeth George

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.

Evangeline Lilly

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

Jessica Hagedorn

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.

Fiona Apple

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." [ , February 25, 1933]

Cyril Connolly