“I have about four different endeavors I'm going after right now. They all excite me in different ways. I'm all about keeping as many irons in the fire as possible. I'm writing music, trying to write a book (aren't we all?), putting a festival together, speaking... It keeps life interesting.” WayWritingTryingBookDifferentTogetherInterestingFireFourRight NowDifferent WaysIronEndeavorFestivalsWriting MusicIrons In The Fire Author:Kevin Griffin
“I still make music. I still write music and I record music, I just don't trust music promotion [and] distribution right now enough to record a new set of diligently worked-upon compositions. I do trust the audience and the audiences very much.” WritingStillsEnoughAudienceRecordsRight NowCompositionDistributionPromotionDon't Trust Author:Will Oldham
“I binge-watched this show Damages. Glenn Close and Rose Byrne are so good. Lily Tomlin is in it. You see all these great actors and the writing is terrific. There are a lot of shows like that. And there are all these conversations right now about roles for women and being paid equally and all of that, but I think what it really is, is opportunity.” ThinkingWritingShowsActorsOpportunityRolesRight NowConversationPaidRoseDamageTerrificLiliesGreat ActorsBinge Author:Winona Ryder
“I think from a major-label perspective, if you were on the flip side of things and that's the world you were used to working in, your interpretation could be, "Oh, they're having trouble writing songs," when really it's like, "No, I'm not ready to write songs, I don't want to write a song right now, if I did write a song, it would be forced."” IfsThinkingWorldWantWritingWould BeUsedSongSidesTroubleReadyPerspectiveRight NowMajorsLabelsInterpretationFlipWriting SongsNot Ready Author:Beth Ditto
“Do yourself and your family a favor: Decide right now that you will write a self-help book someday. I'm serious. A self-help book is a great way to capture what you think makes a good person, a good life and a good world. It's also a "forever document" that you can pass down to future generations. We need more people sharing positive messages and books with the world. Why not be one of those people?” PeopleThinkingWorldWayNeedsWritingPersonsBookSelfHelpingForeverGenerationsSelf HelpSeriousRight NowMessagesFavorsOur FamilySomedayWhy NotCaptureGood LifeDocumentsFuture GenerationGood PersonSelf Help BooksHelp BookPositive Messages Author:Brendon Burchard
“I can write a song in the back of the bus, where I am right now, or in my living room, and I can perform it that night and have an instant reciprocal exchange - an emotional, impactful exchange - and it's a less technical medium. It's a pure expression from my soul to other souls.” WritingI CanSoulNightSongRoomsEmotionalExpressionRight NowPureMediumsMy SoulInstantBusLiving RoomReciprocal Author:Juliette Lewis
“That is one more reason why I write in English only right now. I prefer writing in the language I hear around me for the people by whom I am surrounded.” PeopleWritingReasonLanguageRight NowReason Why Author:Yuriy Tarnawsky
“What I'm trying to do right now is truly answer my most deepest most unarticulated questions for myself through my writing in some form.” WritingTryingFormAnswersRight Now Author:Karan Bajaj
“I am just diving into life again. I just have nothing new to offer right now as an idea for a book. I feel like if I were to write something, I would probably repeat the same idea in a different story.” IfsFeelsWritingBookIdeasDifferentStoriesRight NowOffersRepeatsDivingNothing New Author:Karan Bajaj
“This time, we're living in such a crazy moment in history. People still write and talk about Watergate, which was such a huge, looming backdrop when I was coming of age and when I was a kid growing up. I think we're living in one of those times right now where, in 20 years, people will be writing and talking about it.” PeopleThinkingWritingYearsStillsMomentsKidsAgeTalkingGrowing UpGrowingCrazyHugeRight NowComing Of AgeWatergateKids Growing UpBackdropLooming Author:Patterson Hood
“I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to sputter out after a hundred pages or so - an awful admission for someone who is trying to write one, but it's true.” WritingTryingReadingAttentionNovelRight NowPagesHundredAwfulAdmission Author:Matthew Healy
“I probably write the same story a hundred different ways. I suppose right now I am looking for the 101st different way to write that same story. And the 102nd, and 103rd and 111th and 133rd.” WayWritingDifferentStoriesRight NowHundredDifferent Ways Author:Roxane Gay
“My main interests right now are to publish, to write, to explicate various views which I hope have an impact on thinking people.” PeopleThinkingWritingInterestViewsRight NowImpactVariousPublish Author:Murray Bookchin
“One question is: Who is the working class today, and how has it changed? Where are we in that? I don't have a knee-jerk kind of 1930s thing about we must build the unions and that's the way to the future. I'm writing this book right now called Pallin' Around, and the subtitle is: "Talking to the Tea Party." And frankly I find talking to the Tea Party exhilarating, I love it.” WayWritingKindBookTodayPartyTalkingClassChangedRight NowUnionsTeaKneesWorking ClassJerkTea Party1930sExhilaratingSubtitles Author:Bill Ayers
“What I need more in my culture and in my life right now is hope, and so I tend to write to that. I'll always end up bending more toward optimism.” NeedsWritingEndsCultureRight NowOptimismBending Author:Eric Heisserer
“I'm in an odd place right now in New York where I routinely get trashed by every daily drama critic and have a few allies among weekly/monthly drama critics, and you sort of plot these things out and figure it out. But it's just what any writer goes through, periods of favor, periods of disfavor. And the trick is just to keep writing and to not let an obsession.” WritingFiguresNew YorkPeriodsDramaRight NowCriticsFavorsTricksObsessionOddPlotAllies Author:Tony Kushner
“You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.” WantWritingStuffRight NowPhonesShootingFilmmaker Author:Matthew McConaughey
“Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is stupid. The audience only wants to go this deep. Poor us, we're marginalized because of TV, the great hypnotic blah, blah." You can sit around and have these pity parties for yourself. Of course this is bullshit. If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people. One possible reason is that the people it's speaking to have become too stupid to appreciate it. That seems a little easy to me.” PeopleIfsWantWritingLittlesArtRealSometimesReasonSeemsFormFallCoursesEasyPoorPartyFictionAudienceStupidTvsRight NowMy FriendsAppreciatePityBullshitFallacyMarginalizedBlahHypnoticPity Party Author:David Foster Wallace
“There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn me at the stake for feeling so good, so full, so much intense pleasure.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingMomentsFeelingsFeltPleasureRight NowIntenseStakes Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home that's no excuse ... Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.” WritingLooksEndsHomeAmericaDestinyCircumstancesRight NowDetermineExcuseThe End Of The DayWhere You AreYour DestinyWhere You Come Author:Barack Obama
“Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.” WritingTwoIdeasStoriesShowsSeemsTogetherJobsSunClearOne ThingSkyRight NowEmptyNo IdeaIslandsSomething NewBuriedSailingGood StoryDump Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft