Quotes about writ
writing choral-music chamber-music
I never listen to music when I'm writing. Ben Fountain
writing thinking self
I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.
writing college age
From about the age of 15 or 16 I'd had the notion that I wanted to write fiction, and I'd done enough in college to satisfy myself that I had a knack for it - I wouldn't call it "talent" - though I wondered if I'd ever have the guts to actually commit to it.
writing college two
I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.
writing piano lines
I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines. Ben Gibbard
writing songwriters
As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.
writing self people
You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writing with other self-destructive acts. I certainly was one of those people for a long time.
writing thinking needs
More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.
writing stand-by-me how-you-feel
You're writing it is how you feel. And when you're finished you put your signature on it and you mail it off and that's it. And that's how "Stand By Me" was really. Ben E. King
writing being-in-love lucky
I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing. Ben Elton
writing police done
If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.
writing scotch cards
I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink. Ben Folds
writing thinking alcohol
I think alcohol is a good drug for me when I'm writing. I don't think I've ever had a problem with it. I can stop for a few weeks, so I think it's okay. I don't think it's good for my liver, but I do love it. It's a huge part of my life, and it makes me happy.
writing thinking people
I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don't ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.
writing church musician
But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you thats the center of it, that is it. Its almost like theres something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if youre a songwriter that sings your material.
writing folds
Im really good at writing almost hits.
writing simplicity proud
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.
writing bars way
The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.
writing albums magazines
I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer. Barry Hannah
writing style literature
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen. Carl Sandburg
writing hard-work past
I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.
writing advice
Beware of advice-even this.
writing letters
Never write a letter and never destroy one. Cardinal Richelieu
writing media giving
Google AdWords help with targeting people. Social media makes it easy to find people. A lot of people write blogs as a hobby. Others do it to make money. Instead of advertising on a blog, do a revenue share where you give them a 10-percent share for the business you receive.
writing people feelings
Many people don't have an outlet for their feelings or how they can express life and not everybody in a relationship is the kind of person who wants to. But if you can write, you can find a good way to do it. Cameron Crowe
writing thinking voice
Sometimes things you write are messages to yourself. Even though I think my stuff has a particular voice because you are who you are, it's good to switch it up, professionally and personally. The dare to be great situation is always going to be the one that matters the most.
writing memorable trying
If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.
writing rocks age
Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.
writing thinking degrees
Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.
writing people matter
You just never know if people out there will relate to things when you write them; it matters to you, and to some people it doesn't. Some people are 'I'm not in the mood for that; thanks.'
writing mean rose
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose. C. S. Lewis
writing thinking superstitions
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely. Anne Tyler
writing wife window
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window. Burton Rascoe