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“I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.”

Writing Trying I Can Sometimes Hard Song Three Simple Down And Chords Messed Up

Author:Sondre Lerche

“When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.”

Feels Writing Concerts Old Fashioned

Author:Sondre Lerche

“One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.”

People Writing Long Matter Character Fiction Long Time

Author:Michael Lindsay-Hogg

“I don't believe in writing people off.”

People Writing Believe Don't Believe

Author:Rico Love

“It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.”

Knows Writing Firsts Song Heard

Author:Rico Love

“When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.”

People Ifs Writing Artist Stuff Records Focused Touring

Author:Rico Love

“I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.”

Writing Trying Philosophy Whole Fiction Adults Academic Journal Publish Writing Fiction

Author:Cheryl Mendelson

“I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.”

Way Writing Trying Use Shows Certain Song Given Differences Responsibility Talking Fans Listening Radio Making A Difference Writing Songs

Author:Randy Owen

“The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.”

Writing Stills Song Juice

Author:Randy Owen

“The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.”

Writing Inspiration Never Change

Author:Randy Owen

“The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.”

Writing Different Written Biographies Wendy

Author:Julie Salamon

“I've always loved the dialogue that Pedro Almodovar writes.”

Writing Dialogue Almodovar

Author:Bonnie Wright

“I get a lot of 'Oh, you've been gone.' I wasn't gone. Just because you didn't see me doesn't mean I wasn't working and collecting checks. I just wasn't singing and doing videos. I do a lot of other things, like I said, like writing scripts and stuff like that. I write for other artists.”

Writing Mean Said Artist Stuff Gone Singing Scripts Checks Video Collecting Writing Scripts

Author:Tionne Watkins

“Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.”

Way Writing Seems Race Greek Say Anything Like Something Celts

Book:Many long years ago

Source: Many long years ago

“Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.”

Writing Said Two Ends Creative Flower Drink Taste Advertising Brown Bottles Ads Creative Writing Slogans Spit Cigar Billboards

Book:The Good Life According to Hemingway

Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway

“He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.”

Writing Used Reading Sides Bed Paper Spread Boards Papers Typewriters Work Place Bookcases

Book:Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir

Source: Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir

“It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision, no need for love-tokens or nice views.”

Way Needs Writing Wells Views Nice Block Contemplation Anguish Revision Tokens

Author:Peter York

“Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.”

Writing Looks Real Seems House Rooms Views Subjects Serious Small Rooms Room With A View Serious Subjects

Author:Peter York

“It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.”

“Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.”

Writing Song Football Series Starting Boundaries Crucial Timing Stopping Protective Gears

Author:Christine Lavin

“Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.”

Writing Wells Hard Inspiration Song Hours Week Hard Work Guitar Piano

Author:Bjorn Ulvaeus

“To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.”

Writing Research

Author:Jean-Jacques Annaud

“I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.”

Knows Writing Littles Sometimes Bits Emotion Little Bit Prose Purple

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.”

Writing Stills Destiny Developing Over You Our Destiny Your Destiny

Author:Alex Borstein

“I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.”

Want Writing Children Made Kids Song Records Bed

Author:Black Francis

“For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.”

Writing Artist Performances Eggs Chickens Live Performance

Author:Black Francis

“I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Heart Matter Age America Song Sound Subjects Elements Subject Matter Writing From The Heart

Author:Gerry Beckley

“I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.”

Writing Littles Would Be Used Currents

Author:Adam Clymer

“Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Looks Book Different Next Morning Written Writing A Book

Author:Adam Clymer

“Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.”

Writing Mad Inspired Being Mad

Author:Amy Clampitt

“Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.”

Writing Sometimes Rage

Author:Amy Clampitt

“I'm excited and terrified to write something new.”

Writing Excited Something New Terrified

Author:Marc Cherry

“I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.”

Ifs Writing Looks Different Stories Together Happenings Everyday Different Things

Author:Desmond Dekker

“Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.”

People Writing Emotion More Time Dwelling

Author:Iris DeMent

“Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.”

Writing Real Fun Easy Fulfilling

Author:Iris DeMent

“I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.”

World Writing Kind Song Results Attention

Author:Iris DeMent

“Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.”

Writing Wells Different Film Three Courses Process Written Shooting Three Times Edits

Author:Stephen Daldry

“I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.”

People Thinking Want Writing Heart Paper

Author:Tim Gane

“I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.”

Writing Stuff Waiting Hours Common Acting Scripts Timing Immediacy

Author:Lukas Haas

“Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it, so it ends up being a very adventurous process.”

Writing Ends Process Inspire Keep Going Adventurous

Author:Marketa Irglova

“Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If it's just you, and you're at your favorite piano, or whatever instrument, and you feel comfortable, then somehow, I always feel like it's opening a door and letting whatever is to pass through pass.”

People Ifs Way Feels Writing Littles Self Process Nice Doors Comfortable Conscious Instruments Opening Piano Solitary Self Conscious Really Nice Your Favorite

Author:Marketa Irglova

“The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I play with other musicians or percussive instruments, it might end up being a little more upbeat.”

Ifs Writing Littles Ends Play Might Song Rooms Quiet Musician Instruments Upbeat

Author:Marketa Irglova

“I'm too impatient to wait for things to happen to me. If I should be out of work for two months I would go crazy. So as soon as I'm free, I start writing. While it is necessary for me to write, I know that if I go too long without acting on the stage I don't feel well.”

Ifs Knows Feels Should Writing Wells Long Two Happens Waiting Acting Crazy Stage Months Impatient Two Months

Author:Erland Josephson

“I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.”

Writing Children Authority Claims Illustrating

Author:Hugh Lofting

“The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.”

Way Writing Mean Has Beens I Can Facts My Own Successful

Author:Hugh Lofting

“The way that I sort of direct the writers is, let's do the best story we can. Let's not worry about production issues. 'How much will that cost? How are we going to shoot that?' Let's not set up those constraints on the writing. I don't think it helps the project to work like that.”

Thinking Way Writing Helping Stories Worry Issues Cost Projects Direct Productions Do The Best Constraints

Author:Jose Padilha

“I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.”

Way Writing Wish Lyrical

Author:Tom Paulin

“That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.”

Writing Might Happens Song Twenties Sticks Thirty Forty Significance Churning

Author:Mick Ralphs

“If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Looks Song

Author:Nick Rhodes

“Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.”

Writing Wells Song Fats Outlets Mattresses

Author:Noel Redding

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