Writing Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.”
– Brian Eno

“Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn’t mean to but I just did.”
– Adele

“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.”
– John Updike

“If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.”
– Doug Coupland

“The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.”
– Elizabeth Bowen

“I just want to keep writing music.”
– Lady Gaga

“I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.”
– Kanye West

“Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.”
– Horace

“When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.”
– Alanis Morissette

“I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.”
– Alanis Morissette

“I’ll be writing songs till I die. There’s just no question.”
– Alanis Morissette

“My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he’s 33 and being a professional while I’m playing soccer with my friends. Ha!”
– Alanis Morissette

“I’ll be writing records until I’m dead, whether people like it or not!”
– Alanis Morissette

“I’m clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I’ll be writing books. I’m still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.”
– Alanis Morissette

“I’ve been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.”
– Alanis Morissette

“If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.”
– Tori Amos

“In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”
– George Orwell

“Good writing is like a windowpane.”
– George Orwell

“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.”
– Alice Walker

“Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn’t happen overnight by simply writing new marketing and advertising strategies. It takes effort to identify a vision that your customers will find credible and aligned with their values.”
– Simon Mainwaring

“Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.”
– Thomas a Kempis

“Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.”
– Robert Frost

“Now I’m kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.”
– Ang Lee

“I don’t care about writing really.”
– Ang Lee

“That isn’t writing at all, it’s typing.”
– Truman Capote

“It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.”
– Boris Johnson

“The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I’m just like, ‘Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do’.”
– Eminem

“I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.”
– Jascha Heifetz

“Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.”
– E. L. Doctorow

“The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.”
– Robert Cormier

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