“Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.” IfsWritingWellsMightSongFeltServingHammersAttemptingVocalGigsRepetitiveFriesBanging Author:Ronnie Montrose
“I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.” PeopleFeelsWritingHateFeltLosesCompassionLonelinessSorrowForgiving Author:Louise Penny
“I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn't have enough life experience at that point to write a movie.” WritingEnoughRememberFeltSoundScriptsLife ExperienceCheesyNyuWriting Scripts Author:Todd Phillips
“I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.” WritingFeltSells Author:Jack Vance
“I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.” PeopleWritingSeemsYoungFeltStuffSmartPullingCurtainsExposingFrail Author:Mike White
“I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.” FeelsWritingPersonsDifferentUsedFeltDisciplineInspiredMoodMature Author:Donald Miller
“I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.” WritingFeltStudyDisciplineTheologyElitesBiblicalTestamentRulingNew Testament Author:N. T. Wright
“I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.” PeopleWayFeelsShouldWritingSongFeltI RealizedWriting Songs Author:Marilyn Manson
“Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.” FeelsWritingForceFeltDown AndImpulseUninspired Author:Zoe Kazan
“Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.” WritingYearsLongHappensWould BeActorsFeltNaturalActingOne DayGravesExtensionsDaft Author:Stephen Fry
“For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.” ShouldWritingKindLittlesSelfWantedSongFeltUnderstoodShould HaveReeds Author:Lou Reed
“Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.” ThinkingWritingYearsFirstsAbleDesireBeliefFeltDifficultActingAchieveCoupleSingingTestsEncouragementBlowProfessionScreensEndlessRejectionRomeUnfairSlidesFaith In YourselfStaggeringAvidReversal Author:Sophia Loren
“I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books I've loved.” WritingBookIdeasStatesReadingFeltMemoriesAliveSpendingBrilliantEngagedPositivelyRaptureBursting Author:Nora Ephron
“For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?” WritingYearsArtIdeasFeltTalkingKnowingProduceDrawsCriticsNo IdeaMistrustRhymingCouplets Author:Adam Gopnik
“Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.” PeopleIfsWritingMayLightFeltCan DoAbilityEffortQualitySuccessfulParticularBottomBeing SuccessfulRecallsTemperature Author:Maxwell Perkins
“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.” PeopleWayWritingStoriesFeltNatural 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.” IfsWritingEndsPlayAbleWantedSongFeltGoalRoomsHeardUnderstoodGuitarProductionsStudiosVersionsBells Author:Madonna Ciccone
“I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: 'If I sit down and do this, everything will come out okay.'” IfsKnowsWantFeelsWritingI CanStoriesHouseFeltPayWalkingCreatingOkayDown AndDesertLeapChimneysLeap Of Faith Author:Stephen King
“I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.” WorldWritingWantedFelt Author:Carl Honore
“When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel.” NeedsWritingRomanceCertainWishFeltNovelFashionMaterialsClaimsAssumingEntitledLatitude Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne
“I've always felt that my relationship to the United States is analogous to a marriage. I love this country. I hate it. I get angry at it. I feel close to it. I'm charmed by it. I'm repelled by it. And it's a marriage that's gone on for let's say at least 50 years of my writing life, and in the course of that, what's happened? It's gotten worse. It's not what it used to be.” FeelsWritingYearsCountryStatesAmericaUsedHateCoursesFeltUnitedUnited StatesGoneHappenedI HateAngryUsed To BeWriting LifeCharmed Author:Norman Mailer
“The thing I liked about writing about food when I started it was that I felt I was writing about food in a different way. Not like a food writer.” WayWritingDifferentFeltDifferent Ways Author:Nigella Lawson