Writing Quotes - Page 1065

I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano

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

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

You know, the age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19? I'm up here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something, or I wouldn't have been nominated for Best New Artist. Sometimes it's like, "You're right. My mother wrote these songs."

One of my friends said to me, "Oh yeah, of course you aren't writing." So I was like, "The next time you see me, I'm gonna have a new song." I wrote "Criminal" in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.

Writing is something Ive always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.

So long as I could write things down I could give up talking for a VERY long time.

You've got to be committed. It comes down to setting yourself goals as an individual. In rugby you have team goals that you strive for, but you also set yourself simple goals that are achievable. It helps to write them down so you understand what you need to do, and what your focus is. Put them on your wall, then each time you wake up, you'll see them. Then you can just tick them off once you've achieved them.

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.

Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.

When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

I keep a journal. I like myself better when I just pour it out. It's easier sometimes, even if you write on a piece of paper and then tear it up, just to vent it out. Because in the past I have sometimes used interviews as therapy, and then I've regretted it because I'm going, "Wait a second, that is not for the world to know. That's for me to know."

You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.

Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible.

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

I was in a crazy, private, awesome bubble again, and that's when I started to write.

I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.

I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, 'But this song is so much better than this song,' and then I kind of ditch that song. It's a long process.