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“I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.”

Writing Elements Patterns Singers Rhyme Lyricists

Author:Erykah Badu

“There is no way that my mother hasn't influenced my career. She's my first critic. She's my best critic. She has the best instincts from writing to style to editing, to the visual elements of my career.”

Way Writing Firsts Mother Careers Style Elements Instinct Critics Visuals Editing

Author:Lena Dunham

“I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.”

Writing Kind Song Elements Visuals

Author:Nick Cave

“I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.”

Want Writing Years Mean Ends Sometimes Interesting Elements Another Year

Author:Michael Helm

“I treat both acting and writing as a creation - writing is just another element or aspect of it.”

Writing Acting Creation Elements Aspect Treats

Author:Meital Dohan

“When I open my mouth and sing, the truth comes out. When I write, the truth comes out. I can't lie. That, I think, is one of the strongest elements of my music. When people talk about my writing as though I'm doing it from an accountant's perspective, it really pisses me off.”

People Thinking Writing I Can Lying Perspective Elements Mouths Strongest Accountants Truth Comes Out

Author:George Michael

“It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.”

Writing Certain Found Theory Elements Faults Peculiar Bohemian Beatnik Bohemia

Author:Jack Kerouac

“In terms of style, I think the memoirist should have a novelist's skill and all the elements of a novelist's toolbox. When I read a memoir, I want to really, deeply experience what the author experienced. I want to see the characters and hear the way they speak and understand how they think. And so in that way, writing a memoir feels similar to writing a novel.”

Thinking Way Want Feels Should Writing Character Speak Term Novel Style Skills Elements Should Have Memoir Novelists Really Deep Toolbox

Author:Danielle Trussoni

“If I'm not writing, I'm not fully living. It has become the essential element that defines who I am.”

Ifs Writing Essentials Elements Who I Am

Author:Danielle Trussoni

“People even split up by text message, they dump each other by text. Everything seems so disposable, so throwaway, but you have to engage with that if you're writing about the modern world. You've also got all these pop references that you feel obligated to make. They're just part of the bricolage of the whole thing, whether or not these are actually significant elements themselves.”

People Ifs World Feels Writing Whole Seems Modern Elements Messages Pops Significant Splits Modern World Dump Disposable Text Message

Author:Irvine Welsh

“The information that was contained in a cathedral was based upon a common culture - a common Christian culture - and the elements were chosen for a common symbolic meaning. Someone who knew everything that was represented in a cathedral had a sort of encyclopedia - you can indeed call it that - but it was a selective encyclopedia, like encyclopedias back when they were books and the people writing them were supposed to be specialists in their field. I think today the problem is that people don't know how to choose between different kinds of information.”

“That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.”

Way Writing Looks Easy Judging Elements Surprise My Way Things To Do Easy Things Element Of Surprise

Book:Literary Occasions: Essays

Source: Literary Occasions: Essays

“I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.”

Writing Trying Different Sometimes Feelings Emotional Painting Communication Elements Pages Cinematic

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real.”

Writing Believe Important Real Together I Believe Stuff Process Fire Elements Memoir Authenticity Vulnerability Autobiography Writing Process Exposure

Book:Weight

Source: Weight

“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”

Writing Sometimes Emotion Creation Discipline Elements Drunk Restraint Sober Spontaneity

Book:Reuben, Reuben: A Novel

Source: Reuben, Reuben: A Novel

“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.”

Thinking Knows Men World Want Giving Should Writing Made Book Wish Study Elements Breathe Atmosphere Pens Utterance Dens Bookworms

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.”

Ifs Writing Trying Book Hours Elements Difficulty Surprise Expecting Element Of Surprise Surprise Attacks

Author:H. G. Wells

“It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie I don't like," basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or that it's not as good as something similar that was done in a previous film. What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive.”

People Ifs Writing Hard Reason Done Seems Film Moving Hate Terrible Easier Elements Criticism Obvious Arguing Ridiculous Flaws Like Something Parody Cerebral Things You Like

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.”

Writing Made Language Heard Walking Elements Narrative

Book:Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?' A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.' You enjoy this duty?' He nodded. I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here.”

World Writing Said Romance Enjoy Lord Figures Duty Horror Elements Shots Philosophical Peaceful Evening Smoking Bats Rats Spiders Pipe Roger Storage Racks Grinning Morbidity Good Evening

Book:The Hand of Oberon

Source: The Hand of Oberon

“The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted them from their original meaning, thus revealing their real significance. Henceforth, every form of writing will consist of an operation of decoding, of contamination, and of sense perversion. All this because all language is essentially mystification, and everything is fiction.”

Writing Firsts Real Form Language Term Fiction Elements Originals Narrative Operations Significance Distribution Revealing Explicit Perversion Enigmatic Contamination

Author:Brion Gysin

“Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.”

Writing Despair Elements Underrated

Author:Dave Barry

“You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.”

Needs Writing Two Three Successful Focus Talent Discipline Elements Luck Novelists Three Things

Author:Michael Chabon

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