“hen, there's such a temptation to just constantly write things that are going to make the fans happy. Sometimes it takes a little bit of unhappiness to make those happy pay-offs work better. That's something that is fascinating to us and I think has really changed the way that stories are told.” ThinkingWayWritingLittlesSometimesStoriesBitsPayFansChangedLittle BitTemptationFascinatingUnhappinessHens Author:Jeff Pinkner
“As my kid gets a little bit older, if I feel like I have a little bit more time on my hands, I'd like to get more into developing ideas and writing things.” IfsFeelsWritingLittlesIdeasHandsKidsBitsLittle BitDevelopingMore Time Author:Busy Philipps
“When I write songs, I try to remove myself a little bit. Obviously they're very personal to me, but it feels easier if I feel like I'm writing characters.” IfsFeelsWritingTryingLittlesCharacterSongBitsEasierLittle BitRemove Author:Hozier
“There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.” PeopleKnowsGivingWritingWellsLittlesBitsAuthorityLittle BitDirectWeightDrawingIndirect Author:Ian Anderson
“Our whole intention was to make a record of songs that we grew up with and change them up a little bit, but we kind of stumbled on writing "Joseph's Lullaby." The irony is when I originally wrote the song, it was called "Mary's Lullaby." I wrote it from Mary's standpoint and it was in a higher key, a real falsetto, and it just wasn't right. One day, the producer's wife said, "Well, it's kind of odd that you're singing from Mary's perspective, being the guy. Why don't you do Joseph?” WritingWellsKindLittlesSaidRealWholeGuySongBitsRecordsWifePerspectiveKeysGrewHigherOne DayLittle BitGrew UpSingingIntentionProducersIronyOddMaryStandpointLullabyFalsetto Author:Bart Millard
“It's funny because you do often read in recounts of very famous albums, people tend to focus on mistakes in really positive ways, and there's certain mistakes of my own that I always do find on every record that I needed to accept. I find it really interesting to talk about. I always write songs at the wrong tempos, and I have to learn to accept that a little bit.” PeopleWayWritingLittlesCertainSongBitsMy OwnInterestingMistakeAcceptingRecordsFocusNeededLittle BitAlbumsReally InterestingTempoVery FamousReally Positive Author:Zach Condon
“I had the analysis of a million or so SNPs [single nucleotide polymorphisms] just to see what was there. That's partly because I was writing a book about DNA and personalized medicine and I thought it would be a little bit disingenuous to talk about what could be done without actually having the experiment done on yourself.” WritingLittlesBookDoneWould BeBitsMillionsLittle BitMedicineExperimentsAnalysisDnaWriting A BookDisingenuousPersonalized Author:Francis Collins
“I think it's stripped down as far as electronics go, but we just wanted to write a record that we felt better represented how we sound live with more of a rock feel, which is the direction we've been heading. It's just an evolution of the band throughout the years. We worked on this record longer than any other record, so I don't know if "stripped down" is how I would put it; I think it is a little bit more raw sounding.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsWritingYearsLittlesWantedFeltBitsSoundRecordsRocksEvolutionBandLittle BitHeadingsElectronics Author:Jason C. Miller
“Essentially, the scripts are not that different. Let's say, in literary terms, it's the difference between writing horizontally and writing vertically. In live television, you wrote much more vertically. You had to probe people because you didn't have money or sets or any of the physical dimensions that film will allow you. So you generally probed people a little bit more. Film writing is much more horizontal. You can insert anything you want: meadows, battlefields, the Taj Mahal, a cast of thousands. But essentially, writing a story is writing a story.” PeopleWantWritingLittlesDifferentStoriesFilmBitsTermDifferencesTelevisionLittle BitScriptsCastsDimensionsWant MeBattlefieldsMeadowsYou Want MeInsertHorizontalTaj MahalMahalLive TelevisionFilm WritingLiterary Terms Author:Rod Serling
“I like to feel that every day or most days, I do a little bit of writing. I am a creature of habit in terms of the way I live.” WayFeelsWritingLittlesBitsTermHabitCreaturesLittle BitCreatures Of Habit Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter
“I write to entertain. When people read one of my books I want them to finish with a smile on their faces, feeling a little bit better about themselves and the people in their lives.” PeopleWantWritingLittlesBookFeelingsFacesBitsLittle Bit Author:Janet Evanovich
“With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock lyrics, but I'm writing from a music standpoint. I'm thinking more of music heroes, if they're in my mind. Not William Blake or John Ashbury. Sometimes maybe I thought of him a little bit. Or Wallace Stevens. I don't even really fully understand either of them.” IfsThinkingWritingMindMeanLittlesSometimesBitsRocksHeroLittle BitStandpointBlake Author:Stephen Malkmus
“Sometimes things reveal themselves to you a little bit. I think it was Joan Didion that said, "We write to find out what we're thinking." And sometimes that happens.” ThinkingWritingLittlesSaidSometimesHappensBitsLittle Bit Author:Craig Finn
“People don't actually, a lot of times, know the game behind the game. If people think that they do, it's a little bit of a naïve assessment of how the [writing] industry works.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWritingLittlesGamesBitsBehindsIndustryLittle BitAssessment Author:Mandy Stadtmiller
“When I'm writing obviously I have all the nostalgia in the world, I have all the emotion in the world, but then when I actually perform, I need to just perform it, and that's it. I do retain like a little bit of it because I have to, I sing and perform the songs so I have to - it's a performance of the songs - but I just have to get the right balance.” WorldNeedsWritingLittlesSongBitsEmotionBalanceLittle BitPerformancesNostalgia Author:Ellie Goulding
“I want to write a score for a film. It can be a proper film, maybe for a film kind of like... I saw that movie 'Drive', or a bit of a 'Blade Runner' vibe. A little bit sci-fi, but I don't know. I've just always wanted to write a score for a film.” KnowsWantWritingKindLittlesWantedFilmBitsSawsLittle BitScoreSci FiRunnersBladesBlade Runner Author:Flume
“I've always felt my spirit animal was a Tiger, so it's funny that now in 'Roar' with Katy Perry - which is a song we write together - there's the line: "I got the eye of the Tiger..." So I feel like there's a little bit of me in there.” FeelsWritingLittlesEyeTogetherSpiritSongFeltBitsLinesAnimalLittle BitTigers Author:Bonnie McKee
“Horror films had died a little bit before Scream came around. That was one of the reasons I wrote it. I wanted to write something that wasn't being made right now and maybe sell if I come up with a new horror film. Because no one is watching those movies. Let's do it. That was my whole goal, and it paid off. I feel like it's never stopped.” IfsFeelsWritingLittlesMadeReasonWholeWantedFilmBitsGoalHorrorRight NowLittle BitDiedPaidSellsCome UpScreamHorror FilmPaid Off Author:Kevin D. Williamson
“It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my imagination than on facts, more on research than on memory; so it is basically a slower writing process, more reading, more exploring. On the other hand, this approach is a little bit relieving too, since many times while writing [How the Soldieer Repairs the Gramophone] I felt too close and equal to my character.” WritingLittlesCharacterFactsStoriesHandsReadingFeltBitsProcessImaginationChallengesMemoriesSimpleEqualApproachLittle BitResearchExploringWriting ProcessMy ImaginationReading More Author:Sasa Stanisic
“People write things in newspapers about me that aren't true - or that are true. They take pictures of my kids on the way to school. I get a little bit inured to it in a way that I think most people probably aren't.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingLittlesKidsSchoolBitsLittle BitNewspapers Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal
“I'm running out of time, and a Western is America's answer to a Greek tragedy, so that's what we did. [Kiefer] hired Brad [Mirman] to write the script and he had the ideas, and then he and I did stuff on the script to make it a little cleaner to ourselves. And then, we played it. We were just actors working together, and our DNA must have informed it somehow. Certainly, we came out of it purified a little bit.” WritingLittlesIdeasRunningTogetherAmericaActorsStuffBitsAnswersLittle BitTragedyWesternScriptsGreekWorking TogetherDnaCleanersBradGreek TragedyRunning Out Of Time Author:Donald Sutherland
“And for so long, I had thought if I was going to write a song, or get "into" something, I had to at least smoke a joint or something. And that didn't work anymore. Once I was fairly well cleaned out, even a little bit of a drug getting into my work threw me off kilter.” IfsWritingWellsLittlesLongSongBitsDrugLittle BitSmokeJoints Author:Iggy Pop
“A lot of times people do spiritual practice just for themselves. I try to turn that a little bit. I try to make spiritual practice more a part of the community. I write about infusing people with compassion.” PeopleWritingTryingLittlesSpiritualTurnsBitsCommunityCompassionPracticeLittle BitSpiritual Practice Author:Sakyong Mipham
“I think that emotionally, I've probably felt a little bit more balanced when I started writing again.” ThinkingWritingLittlesFeltBitsLittle BitBalanced Author:J. K. Rowling
“I write a little bit about what it's like to be a female boss in my book [ Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?] and the things I've noticed about that, but by and large, it's just a tough job in general.” WritingLittlesBookJobsBitsLittle BitToughFemaleBossHanging Out Author:Mindy Kaling
“As cheesy as it sounds, I feel like I do write a lot, not necessarily for a message to be taken away. I feel like it is a little bit egotistical to be like, "I hope they are a better person after listening to my song."” FeelsWritingLittlesPersonsSongBitsSoundTakenListeningLittle BitMessagesBetter PersonCheesyEgotistical Author:Thomston
“I always wince a little bit when I send me to each of my new books. I wince at submitting myself to my father's judgment. But, of course, he's such a fond father that he always writes back, saying it's the greatest thing ever written.” WritingLittlesBookCoursesFatherBitsWrittenJudgmentLittle BitNew BooksWince Author:Emma Donoghue
“I like to surprise the listener a little bit and also surprise myself when I write the music.” WritingLittlesBitsLittle BitSurpriseListeners Author:Trentemøller
“It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it always begins with the writer. With the kernel of an idea, or a character, or an idea or a theme, or even an outcome. But for documentary photographers, photographs begin at that intersection of the real world and the imaginative inner world.” WorldWritingMayLittlesIdeasRealCharacterBitsTalkingLittle BitPhotographerPhotographOutcomesThemeReal WorldDocumentariesImaginativeInner WorldIntersectionsKernel Author:Sam Abell
“When I'm writing something, if it gets too serious, I just can't bear it, so I take a step back and take the overall scene in and vent the air a little bit.” IfsWritingLittlesBitsStepsAirSeriousBearsSceneLittle Bit Author:Park Chan-wook
“I'd rather the handshake for somebody that I can trust than a contract. Because you can read the bloody contract - perhaps if you made a little bit of a mistake writing it - in a way to suit you.” IfsWayWritingLittlesMadeI CanBitsMistakeLittle BitSuitsContractsBloodyHandshakeSuits You Author:Bernie Ecclestone
“I talked to [Larry] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was one of those people who took a long time to come out.” PeopleWritingLittlesLongRememberBitsLittle BitLong TimeLarryKramer Author:Kevin Sessums
“I write with the idea that nobody will care about what I've written; I publish with the idea that nobody will care either. Which is why every time somebody cares enough to read a novel of mine, or respond to it - a reader, a reviewer, even my own editor - I'm a little bit amazed, and so hugely grateful.” WritingLittlesIdeasEnoughCareBitsMy OwnNovelWrittenMinesReaderLittle BitGratefulEditorsAmazedPublishReviewers Author:Lauren Grodstein
“I was just fooling around with the piano and Todd [Phillips] was like, 'Hey there's a great spot in the movie [The Hangover] where we need a little bit of a breath in the narrative. You should write a song and stick it in there.' And I was like, 'Well, what should the song be about?' And he said, 'The tiger.' 'Oh, okay.' So I went off and I wrote this song. I came back and Todd and I tinkered with it a little more and then we shot it right then. It all happened in a day.” NeedsShouldWritingWellsLittlesSaidSongBitsHappenedLittle BitShotsOkayBreathsSticksSpotsHeyNarrativePianoTigersHangoverFooling Around Author:Ed Helms
“When I'm not writing, I tend to get depressed and a little bit surly. And then when I'm writing, suddenly I feel enlivened. Now the only thing as I'm getting older that I notice is that it's a pattern.” FeelsWritingLittlesBitsLittle BitPatternsGetting OldGetting OlderSurly Author:George Saunders
“I feel like I have more experience with publishing humor than pretty much any editor I'm going to be dealing with so sometimes I'll get a little bit nuts if I write something I know is good a certain way, and some editor because of some restriction he has and wants to change it that I know is going to make it less funny that'll piss me off and then I'm inclined to go, "Well, hey I've been doing this a long time, maybe you should..." That doesn't happen that often, but I'm more likely to say that now than I would have been a long time ago. Because dammit, I'm infallible!” IfsKnowsWayWantFeelsShouldWritingWellsLittlesLongHas BeensSometimesHappensCertainBitsLittle BitLong TimeHeyEditorsNutsPublishingLong Time AgoRestrictionInfallible Author:Dave Barry
“It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was a little bit here or there but there was no big effort to ban books.” WritingLittlesBookWholeBigsHappensBitsEffortLittle BitDecadesBans Author:Judy Blume
“As much as there is joy in writing, there's always the little bit of terror to keep you on edge, on your toes. It is a strange way to occupy yourself - to enjoy your life on a daily basis. There is no guarantee that something great is going to come next.” WayWritingLittlesJoyNextBitsEnjoyStrangeLittle BitBasesEdgesTerrorGuaranteesToesGuarantees ThatEnjoy Your LifeOccupy Yourself Author:Robert Cormier