Writing Quotes - Page 315

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.

We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.

The writer must hew the phantom rock.

I like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets.

I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy.

I have tons of stuff that, you know, seems like it's a well-constructed sentence but it is not how people talk, it's how people write. So that's why I think it's sometimes easier for me to write for actors 'cause I know what's frustrating about, you know, sentences that come out just perfect. Well, who talks like that? And who of us don't overlap each other? Except on the radio, hopefully.

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.

There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. So it sort of selects itself. It has to. And plus, often something that wouldn't be funny at the time is okay to make jokes about later.

A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.

I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself.

The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me.

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Think on paper and write them down!

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

If you loved everything you were writing, you would be deluding yourself or a complete and absolute narcissist. It's not about liking what you write, it's about improving with every word, little by little, exploring your craft, becoming the artist you hope to be one day. And you can only do that by working at it every day. It doesn't happen overnight, it doesn't happen over a weekend, it is a lifelong pursuit.

I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.