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Who can forget the music of the French composer Germaine Tailleferre? These are just a few composers whose aesthetic ideals we all share, and there are many more women creators writing stunning and exciting music, and I wish I had space to list them all!Collection: Writing
I'm dependent on technology like most 21st century human beings. More and more I need to be "connected" in order to communicate with family, teach seminary, minister to my community, and write as I'm called to do.Collection: Writing
Don't just write a to-do list write a to-be list.Collection: Writing
I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself.Collection: Writing
I love performing, it's my favourite thing to do. I think the music comes across even stronger live. I started performing first, before I started writing or being in the studio. I just love the energy that we can share together, for just one hour or however long it is. We all come together from all walks of life. I know it sounds cheesy.Collection: Writing
I began conducting when I was in school, around age 12, because I was writing little theater pieces and wanted to perform them. And then somehow I got started on it. I love doing it, but I have to ration myself very severely or I wouldn't get anything else done.Collection: Writing
Designing the prints was very much like writing a story with characters, [inspired by] some of my my favorite icons of the time: Eva Perón and Josephine Baker.Collection: Writing
There hadn't been one done since the late 70s. I was living in Brooklyn, had no connection to Roger Corman, to no one in this movie. I didn't go to film school. I'm like the person who should have never made this film. But I just decided to put one foot in front of the other. I was writing film articles for magazines at the time. I convinced an editor from one of the magazines that I was working for to give me a shot to do a piece on Roger. This was an excuse to go meet him.Collection: Writing
I'm definitely a singer, but I play. I write music too, but it's all coming from the same source. I have never learned an instrument any other way than by myself.Collection: Writing
I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.Collection: Writing
When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.Collection: Writing
It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.Collection: Writing
I don't have the courage not to write all the time.Collection: Writing
I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!Collection: Writing
You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.Collection: Writing
We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.Collection: Writing
I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.Collection: Writing
There are so many different ways, most of them helpful and legal, to get yourself into a state of mind where writing is possible. It's going to be different for each person.Collection: Writing
When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.Collection: Writing
I don't want to write melodies anymore. I can only write really simple, dumb caveman melodies.Collection: Writing
I am a Leo. I was born in August and I love the sunshine. I'm like a cat. We live in a very contemporary house with windows all around it. Wherever a sunspot is, I go to it with my yellow pad and my fountain pen and I write there.Collection: Writing
To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write something and all of a sudden you'll realize that "yes, it reaches out. It meant that, too." Then all of a sudden you'll get a rhyme and the rhyme will throw up a whole new way of looking at things. It's this relationship that you never dreamed of.Collection: Writing
I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.Collection: Writing
I picked up On The Road, Howl, and Naked Lunch (in that order) in high school. I was blown away. The writing was amazing and the places it took me was even more far out. It opened up new avenues of thinking for me and so I went down the beaten road.Collection: Writing
The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painfulCollection: Writing
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.Collection: Writing
The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.Collection: Writing
Not all the lyrics are topical - sometimes that is just the setting. They are all pretty much interpersonal. For some reason it's easier to write about people who are unsavory. It's like sometimes when you peel back an onion, there is mold inside.Collection: Writing
I've had down periods in the past few years where I haven't been writing or working on music, and during that time something always felt like it was missing, but when I bring it back into the equation, everything in my life makes sense again. As corny as that sounds.Collection: Writing
I just co-created a story for a Disney movie that I'm working on with my fiancée. And also about to finish up writing a T.V. pilot set in New Orleans that I'm really excited about. So I'm definitely trying to stay as busy as possible, for sure.Collection: Writing
It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it.Collection: Writing
I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.Collection: Writing
I learned to write with my desk in the living room, next to the TV. But mostly in my head, and I try to be able to do it under any circumstances.Collection: Writing
If I can quote myself, I explained whatever it is I'm doing once for No Tell Motel, and I still think it's the clearest I've ever been about this: "I don't write free verse poems - mostly because I can't. But I am interested in the musical effects achievable with free verse."Collection: Writing
I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.Collection: Writing
I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.Collection: Writing
With music that I write, I like to have in there something you can relate to, a way to share the experience.Collection: Writing
I try to write lyrics that will be able to function on their own if they get separated from the music. But I wouldn't want to take anything away from poets, who work without the frames songwriters get from melody, and I think lyrics should be considered as their own thing.Collection: Writing
I wrote out the lyrics that I would do at MAMA 4~5 days in advance. After I said that, Zico hyung told me that it's dangerous to write lyrics quickly like that and that I should be carefully.Collection: Writing
I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate.Collection: Writing
I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.Collection: Writing
If the chaos is overwhelming, I start making lists. To write it down puts it in perspective.Collection: Writing
There is a very big difference between American and British travel journalism, and that's this whole business of the assisted or freebie trip. In Britain we are unashamed about any travel company paying for you to go and then writing about it. That's the only way we can do it. But I have tried the same in the States, and I can't write for any sizeable American newspaper because they tell you to do it on this basis.Collection: Writing
There is a whole genre of funny travel writers - that's very popular. There's Bill Bryson and people who follow that route and sell travel writing through making people laugh. It's a very difficult group to take. The line between comedy and mockery is sometimes a bit thin.Collection: Writing
I'd like to write fiction. Perhaps at some stage.Collection: Writing
It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.Collection: Writing
I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.Collection: Writing
Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!Collection: Writing
I don't know if make a conscious effort to vary the characters and subjects that I write about, but I do find myself keeping track of ideas that come along, as probably most writers do, and whatever seems most interesting to me when I flip through my notes before I begin a new story is usually what I will try to write about next.Collection: Writing