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“I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them.”

Writing Song Intention Writing Songs Demos

Author:Dave Grohl

“I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.”

Writing Reason Play Accidents

Author:David Hare

“I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.”

Thinking Writing Singing Sitting Guts Sitting Down Therapeutic

Author:Dave Grohl

“I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it’s possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down and write about something. There is something in that thing that I can write about. It’s very much like a rehearsal. An exercise, in a way.”

Ifs Way Writing Trying I Can Exercise Down And Say Anything Insignificant Rehearsal Insignificant Things

Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.”

Thinking Way Want Writing Levels Emotional Music Is Intellectual Direct Abstract Similarity Indirect

Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world is similar to what's going on in music.”

Ifs Thinking World Writing Kind Stills Activity Disappear

Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“You don’t think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me when the writing is going really well. It’s the same kind of feeling. I’m just in it. It’s not the words, it’s not the sentences, I’m not aware of it. Then it’s good.”

Thinking Writing Trying Wells Kind Play Feelings Sentences

Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.”

Writing Hard Easy Novel Strange Strange Things

Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any.”

Knows Writing Trying Sex

Author:David Hare

“Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along the way.”

People Way Writing Character Numbers Mets Who You Are

Author:Grant Morrison

“I'm always writing. It's kind of a curse: You never stop. But I need isolation to write. So the real meat of the material comes when I'm off the road.”

Needs Writing Kind Real Materials Curse Meat Isolation

Author:Taylor Momsen

“I write about what I know, what I live, what I observe.”

Knows Writing

Author:Taylor Momsen

“I try to write in a way where the lyrics have many meanings and you won't really know what's behind it.”

Knows Way Writing Trying Behinds

Author:Taylor Momsen

“At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I wanted to do this so badly.”

Writing Wanted Pages Let Me Letterman

Author:Ben Schwartz

“I do write. I actually do want to start my music as well. My sister and I are starting a band. I've been playing a guitar for nine years, and she plays piano, and we sing together. We're going to start up something soon. I mostly am writing songs right now actually, but I would love to write a script someday.”

Want Writing Years Wells Play Together Song Right Now Band Guitar Starting Scripts Nine Piano Someday My Sister Writing Songs Nine Years

Author:Kaitlyn Dever

“If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.”

Ifs Writing Wells Might Comedy Divine Suburbs Divine Comedy

Author:Joshua Mohr

“Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.”

People Writing Buried Autobiography

Author:Elia Kazan

“When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous.”

Feels Writing Doubt Dangerous Demented

Author:Joan Juliet Buck

“Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.”

Writing Painting Profession Hardest

Author:Anjelica Huston

“I keep social with everyone because I want to know what's going on at every level. At the same time, if I'm not alone a certain amount of time per day then I'll go nuts, because I can't write and I can't think. I can't deal with people all the time. I like being alone. I'm a bit of a cat lady in that way.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Way Want Writing I Can Certain Social Bits Levels Deals Amount Cat Nuts Not Alone Because I Can Like Being Alone Cat Lady

Author:Courtney Love

“When I discovered that I could write music, it felt like the most natural way for me to connect with people and tell my stories. I've always thought of that as what I do: I tell stories.”

People Way Writing Stories Felt Natural

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“My goal from the very beginning was just to write good songs that don't require any production to be felt or understood. I wanted to be able to sit in a room with a guitar and play the song from beginning to end and have it be as impactful as if you heard the studio version with all the bells and whistles.”

Ifs Writing Ends Play Able Wanted Song Felt Goal Rooms Heard Understood Guitar Productions Studios Versions Bells

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.”

Ifs Feels Writing Reason Strategy Agendas Wrong Reasons

Author:Youth Lagoon

“When I was first writing, I used to sit at the piano and play songs - I'd write one or two a night. It was my hobby. At some point, it then became a process that was mainly done within the context of the studio, and writing became part of the recording process.”

Writing Firsts Two Done Play Used Night Song Process Studios Piano Hobbies

Author:Kate Bush

“I spend 60 hours a week on my business but I don't work for a minute. Work is hard. But what I do - writing, speaking, researching, learning, and sharing information - is pure joy. It's what I was called to do.”

Writing Hard Joy Hours Work Week Minutes Information Pure Pure Joy Sharing Information

Author:Carmine Gallo

“If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.”

People Ifs Needs Writing Communication

Author:Selima Hill

“What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about those people who say all you get from looking at the past is a stiff neck?”

People Writing Dream Past Moving Process Necks Benevolent Looking At The Past Stiff Neck

Author:Selima Hill

“I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.”

People Want Writing Sometimes Remember Difficult Voice Steps Opinion Appreciate Appreciate People

Author:Veronica Roth

“So you're stuck. Every time your madman starts to write, your judge pounces on him... So start by promising your judge that you'll get around to asking his opinion, but not now. And then let the madman energy flow... Save details for the judge.”

Writing Energy Opinion Judging Flow Asking Details Stuck Now And Then Madmen Energy Flow

Author:Betty Sue Flowers

“I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that you could graph for why it's not chaos and anarchy - for why it has to be order, and why you need architects and an architectural brain to create the world of the dream for the subject to enter.”

World Needs Writing Reason Stories Dream Order Process Brain Subjects Chaos Anarchy Architect Writing Process Graphs

Author:Jonathan Nolan

“I think my books are better than my exhibitions. If people don't like my books then I don't mind. I guess you like them enough to write an essay about them so that makes me pretty happy.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Mind Book Enough Essays Exhibitions

Author:David Shrigley

“I've always spent a lot of time on my records with what I think were unique rhythmic approaches... but no one ever writes about your rhythm playing”

Thinking Writing Records Approach Unique Rhythm

Author:Joe

“I get a great high from writing.”

Writing

Author:Walter Hill

“I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.”

Want Writing Directors Direct

Author:Walter Hill

“I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere.”

Feels Writing Home Instant

Author:Nathalie Handal

“If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.”

Ifs Writing Trying Comedy Please Writing Comedy

Author:Brendan O'Carroll

“It had become boring to write: 'I like Clare Balding'. To say: 'I don't like Clare Balding' is much more newsworthy.”

Writing Boring Newsworthy

Author:Clare Balding

“I never want to write something until I know every scene in the movie. I don't want someone hiring me and then me not being able to write it. Which is always a fear. So I like to figure it out, know all the characters, and know almost every scene in the movie before I start writing.”

Knows Want Writing Character Able Figures Scene Hiring

Author:Stephen Sommers

“I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.”

Writing Has Beens Book Teaching Scholar Writing A Book Exhibitions

Author:Thomas P. Campbell

“In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.”

Way Writing Trying Feelings Political Song Lost One Thing About Family Feeling Lost

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.”

Giving Writing Trying Today Song Down And Stuck Sat Tape

Author:Jules Shear

“I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.”

People Knows Writing Song House Stores

Author:Jules Shear

“I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity.”

Writing Earth Universe Simple Pages Dare Tales Not Sure Complexity Attributes Notorious Simple Words

Book:Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness

Source: Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness

“I am very impressed by The Carrivick Sisters, one of the best young duos I’ve heard. The girls sing and play as one and their work is characterised by great musicality. They are not only very talented instrumentalists and singers but they write really good songs as well.”

Writing Wells Play Young Song Girl Heard Singers Impressed Great Music Musicality Duos Instrumentalists

Author:Ralph McTell

“For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.”

Ifs Writing Strikes Notebook

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty.”

World Writing Waiting Liberty Creeds One Word

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.”

Writing Years Kids Differences Memories Behinds Weight Odd

Author:David Bowie

“As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers.”

Knows Writing Years Written Criticism Originals Critical Consistently Stressed Charter Framers American Leadership

Author:John Bolton

“I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.”

Writing Children Home Care Wanted Hurt Accidents Recovery My Children Coming Home Day Care

Author:Leslie Banks

“I only write books about dead people. They can't sue.”

People Writing Book Dead People

Author:Pierre Berton

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