Writing Quotes

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

I can't envisage stopping writing.

That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.

For me, writing something down was the only road out.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case.

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.

Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

I used to love writing in my journal.

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

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.