Writing Quotes - Page 293

I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script that has a woman at the center.

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

So many want to be lifted by song and dancing, and this morning it is easy to understand. I write in the sound of chirping birds hidden in the almond trees, the almonds still green and thriving in the foliage.

I liked writing the negative ads more than - because it's more minor chords.

If you know the voice you're writing for it's such a shortcut. It's such a catalyst to creating the kind of energy you want.

I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced.

I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing - one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.

The trees are God's great alphabet: With them He writes in shining green Across the world His thoughts serene.

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.

How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life.

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.

I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.

There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to be. You can write the simplest song, and that's lovely, or you can just write a song that is abstract art.

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.

I could write all songs all day long about what I think about the music industry or music in general. Sometimes I gotta be like, "Let's write about something else." You don't want to say the same thing over and over again. In a lot of ways, I look at records as a year or two of my life encapsulated in songs. They're almost like journal entries.

I love writing family stories.