My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.
I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.
I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.
I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how to write.
I don't have as tight a time limit anymore but I still write in long marathon sessions and then I won't write for a while, I'm not a write-every-day writer.
I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.
I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.
I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.
I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.
Having writers block sucks more than my actual writing. And my writing would be astonishing if I could write how I feel.
I am a disciplined person. When I am writing, I write for 7-8 hours.
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
Honestly...this is why I write. I write to get the happy ending I sometimes feel is eluding me. I write for my sanity.
When I write legally, I try to write very plain, very vanilla, very clear.
With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
