“I'm sure you feel differently about writing than you did when you first started. When you get older and your brain changes, you have to figure out how your job fits into your life as it changes, you know what I mean? I guess everybody goes through that stuff, and I'm no exception, always trying to figure out what I'm doing with music.” KnowsFeelsWritingTryingFirstsMeanJobsStuffBrainFiguresFitExceptionAlways Trying Author:Dan Auerbach
“I just chuck a bunch of words down and whether they find themselves into a song... I have lots of weird notes on my phone. I often come up with a phrase that I really like, I write it down and it stays in my notes folder, and when I'm writing I will scroll through and see if it kind of fits and if I can mould a verse around it.” IfsWritingKindI CanSongFitDown AndNotesPhonesCome UpBunchPhrasesVersesChuckMouldFolders Author:Thomston
“I come from a nation where fantastic fiction has a very low status, unless it fits into some very specific categories or is written by already established authors. I don't by any means try to hide what I write, but the way people think in categories here is pretty extreme: it blots out discussing the actual work on its own terms. That's made me loath to talk about my own work in terms of genre, because once you get a label, it sticks and poof go a slew of potential readers and reviewers because eww, fantasy cooties.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingTryingMeanMadeNationsTermMy OwnFictionFantasyWrittenReaderFitLowsSticksExtremesFantasticLabelsGenreCategoriesDiscussingReviewersCooties Author:Karin Tidbeck
“If you're meant to do something like writing and you end up going into banking or finance, your going to be miserable. You're trying to fit something into a square peg and a round hole. It's just never going to work.” IfsWritingTryingEndsFitRoundsHolesFinanceMiserableSquaresBankingGoing To WorkPegSquare Pegs Author:Robert Greene
“Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love literature and after graduating college, I kind of wandered around in Europe learning languages and writing novels and never led anywhere. And then I got into like journalism in New York as a way to kind of maybe find my way into the field and it wasn't a good fit. It just wasn't right for me.” WayWritingKindBookWantedLiteratureLanguageNovelNew YorkFieldsCollegeFitEuropeJournalismMy WayGraduatesCollege GraduatesLearning LanguageLove Literature Author:Robert Greene
“I didn't like writing just articles and things. So then I wandered around. I tried my hand at film and television and that was a worse fit because I don't really have a mind for that.” WritingMindHandsFilmTelevisionFitArticlesFilm And Television Author:Robert Greene
“I'm okay for things like theater and stuff but for film, I just didn't think in the right way and I didn't like the business. So I was unhappy. So I was in something that was moderately related to my, what I call my calling or my life's path, which is writing, but it wasn't like the right fit.” ThinkingWayWritingFilmStuffPathFitCallingOkayTheaterUnhappyRelatedRight Way Author:Robert Greene
“It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWritingYearsKindSometimesCharacterFormForceChangedPersonalityFitProjectsAdmireOperaTouringAdmirableLarger Than LifeTrilogiesInventiveness Author:Philip Glass
“I never write a tune before the lyrics. I get the lyrics and then I write around them. Some people write music and the lyrics come along and they say, 'Oh yeah, I've got something to fit that.' If that's the way people write songs, I feel like you might as well just go to the supermarket.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsWritingWellsMightSongLike YouFitYeahTunesSupermarkets Author:James Dean Bradfield
“If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.” IfsWritingIdeasInspirationWaitingFitHanging Out Author:Janet Fitch
“I think what we want to do is - when we choreograph, when we design choreography, we try to take it from a character standpoint first. Obviously you write a script and it's like, a Jason Bourne or a John Wick or something like that, you don't start choreographing double twisting wire moves and backflips, or doing the splits. You try to keep it so it fits the character, or the tone of the film.” ThinkingWantWritingTryingFirstsCharacterFilmMovingDesignFitScriptsToneSplitsWireStandpointJasonChoreographyBourneBackflips Author:Chad Stahelski
“I get letters every week from people who live in rural Texas or rural Mississippi and who feel totally alone. They feel like they must be the strangest person in the world. They don't fit in to the religious milieu of their communities. It doesn't make any sense to them. They read some of my columns and they know that there's somebody in the world at least as crazy as they are, and so they write and say is there anybody else?” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsWritingPersonsCommunityReligiousWeekCrazyFitLettersTexasColumnsMississippiMilieu Author:John Shelby Spong
“I have a lot of empathy for women who fit their writing into the crevices of their too-busy lives, as I once did.” WritingFitEmpathyBusyToo BusyBusy LifeCrevice Author:Christina Baker Kline
“Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.” NeedsWritingBookRunningFitMarathonWriting A BookRunning Marathon Author:Catherine Mayer
“I think a lot about writing and I try to read a lot. Being a musician, I don't take the words lightly; they are very, very important to me. At the same time, the words have to be musical and have to fit.” ThinkingWritingTryingImportantFitMusicianMusical Author:Steve Gunn
“No one else writes like Gord Downie, so it's difficult to compare him. He can work in the abstract and still somehow be really specific. He lets parts of his consciousness in that most writers aren't able to do, myself included. I don't feel like I have that access to the surreal and the somehow beautifully meaningful non-sequitur - that fits perfectly. I can never figure that out, how he does that.” WritingDifficultConsciousnessFitMeaningfulCompareAbstractSurreal Author:John K. Samson
“I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote it, doesn't mean that it fits with the story that you're writing.” WritingMeanMomentsNovelFitScene Author:Patrick Stump
“The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.” WritingRealWorkFitNotionSuspicionWriters And WritingWriting By WritersReal WorkCareer SuccessCreativity And Writing Book:Growing up Source: Growing up
“The thing that bothers me is that it seems like all the sensitive stuff I write just goes unnoticed . . . the media doesn't get who I am at all. Or maybe they just can't accept it. It doesn't fit into those negative stories they like to write. I'm the kind of guy who is moved by a song like Don McLean's "Vincent," that one about Van Gogh. The lyric on that song is so touching. That's how I want to make my songs feel. Take "Dear Mama" - I aimed that one straight for my homies' heartstrings.” WritingKindGuySongAcceptingFitNegativeMovedDearBotherSensitiveTouchingUnnoticed Author:Tupac Shakur
“I've always been surprised when a straight guy likes me. It's just been like my whole life has been kinda like that. I definitely felt like when I started writing music, it wasn't writing for a gay audience at all. I was just writing for me. But what I say whenever I get this question is my best friends have always been gay, I've always been, as a person, just accepted by the gay community, and celebrated and had the best nights of my life at gay clubs. Always had a fashion sense usually with drag and I don't know. That's just kind of my people. That's just kind of where I fit in.” PeopleWritingKindNightGuyCommunityAudienceFashionFitGayAcceptedWhole LifeMy Best Friend Author:Allie X
“When I'm editing my work, I'm looking for everything to fit, to feel seamless, for every detail or line of dialogue or scene to feel necessary and organic. I approach the writing of others in much the same way while always working to preserve the writer's voice. To allow myself to be vulnerable on the page, I tell myself no one is going to read my work. There's no way I could put myself out there otherwise.” WritingFitSceneDialogueVulnerable Author:Roxane Gay
“Some sounds are coming from the keyboard and they are very important in the writing process, but on the other hand, we have melody and we have the song before, so if the keyboard sound fits very well, it takes its artistic direction. We play the machines and the machines play us.” WritingImportantSongFitArtisticMelodyWriting Process Author:Nicolas Godin
“We kind of write pop songs, but we don't fit in the pop world. We're really bad at being pop stars and walking down red carpets. We've got our own little bubble, which we really like. We've learned to really like that.” WorldWritingKindSongFitWalkingBubblesCarpetRed CarpetPop Song Author:Katie White
“I kind of, I have quite a clear idea of what I'm trying to do with a record. A Super Furry Animals record is always an adventure, because there's five members of the group and everyone is a producer, we all throw in ideas, and regardless of who writes the song, the songs always get pushed around and shape-shifted to fit everyone in the band. So when I start a record with Super Furry Animals I can never predict how it'll turn out.” WritingTryingKindSongAnimalAdventureFitProducers Author:Gruff Rhys
“When you're researching things that have happened, the clear narrative arc is not there already. This is the problem of writing nonfiction for me - writing nonfiction which is about serious subjects and has serious political and social points to make, yet which is meant to be popular to a degree - what happens when the facts don't fit a convenient narrative arc? I guess that for a lot of nonfiction writers that is a central challenge.” WritingProblemPoliticalChallengesSeriousFitMeant To Be Author:Misha Glenny
“I read the reviews sometimes, but I don't let it really affect the next album because, for me, when I approach an album, it's usually coming to me pretty naturally. It's not like I set out, like, "Okay, I'm going to write an album this month." It's more like I'm just always writing songs and eventually I start to realize that a group of songs sort of fits together, and I go from there in putting together the album and themes and artwork and things like that.” WritingSometimesTogetherSongRealizingFitOkay Author:Chelsea Wolfe
“Before I published my first book, I worked for a while as a documentary and wedding/bar mitzvah videographer, and a part of me still mourns the lost filmmaker I'll never be. Working on a documentary is nearly the opposite artistic process to writing: as a writer you are always trying to fill out a world to fit your story, but as a documentarian your work is to carve a story out of the world. Sometimes, when I'm feeling particularly blocked at my computer, I miss the days when I could just point my camera at something interesting and wait to see what happens.” WorldWritingTryingBookSometimesFeelingsWaitingInterestingMissingFitComputerArtisticFilmmakerMournBlockedSomething InterestingBar Mitzvah Author:Stefan Merrill Block
“I don't really have a set-in-stone process or formula. Sometimes the melody is there and I have to chase down the lyrics. Sometimes, the song is there and I have to make the melody fit. What I've learned so far about songwriting is that I can't force a song. If I try to do that, it's hollow, and people know a hollow song when they hear it. It's the song they stop listening to and forget about. I'd prefer not to write those kinds of songs.” PeopleWritingTryingKindSometimesSongForgetListeningFitMelodySongwriting Author:Kasey Anderson
“I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.” KnowsNeedsWritingSometimesShowsRoomsMorningFailingFitBeachHuntingDragEvery MorningMuseBoulevardTaverns Author:Tom Robbins
“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.” WritingStoriesStuffFitInsightfulTake MeShort StoryUneasyWriting Short Stories Book:Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules Source: Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules