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I can't write - out of all the things it takes to make music, lyrics are the thing I'm by far the shittiest at.Collection: Writing
I am a big Brian Eno fan - the first few Brian Eno records are just absolute gibberish and he came up with a lot of lyrics by writing down loads and loads of random sentences and streams, and I find meaning in that music, even though he'd probably say it's absolute gibberish.Collection: Writing
The rumors of Frank Sinatras violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.Collection: Writing
A large part of academic community is unthinkingly self-involved, producing reams of sterile writing - often consuming unbelievable amounts of public funds - and serving as an instruction manual for how to chase away readers and ignore historical insights.Collection: Writing
When you write, you can hide behind your words. When you talk, you are up front, like the clown in the midway booth; and passersby can bean you with a ball.Collection: Writing
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.Collection: Writing
The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street.Collection: Writing
Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.Collection: Writing
You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.Collection: Writing
When you recognize good writing and you're lucky enough to get it, like with Lost, that's what I follow.Collection: Writing
The energy and generosity of spirit of the people I meet everywhere I perform is what inspires me to make music and through the music, we share a bond even if we may never have met. As long as there is a single person who may find something they are looking for or a feeling they need in my music, I will continue to write for that personCollection: Writing
I want my music to be something that people use in order to access parts of themselves. So in that sense, every piece I write is about all emotions at once, about the lines in between. It's never only about one thing or another. It's emotionally getting at those things that we can't really describe - things for which we don't have labels. So yes, it's about something, and it has a use. It's neither about nothing nor about something concrete - it's about what you bring to it as a listener.Collection: Writing
For me, writing music is a way of processing the world. It's not a concrete thing, as in, "This piece is about giraffes." It's much more of an emotional sort of thing. I want people to find something out about themselves through my music, something that was inaccessible before, something that they were suppressing, something that they couldn't really confront.Collection: Writing
I think it's important to let each thing you write teach you how to write it. You must listen to what you do. Let it be in control. I don't step in until I know what it demands of me.Collection: Writing
In a lot of ways, the way you're making your bread and butter is off people who aren't necessarily who you're writing for.Collection: Writing
I guess I'm a really analytical person, but when I'm writing, all that stuff goes behind a screen. Analysis and taking things apart is really important and really interesting, but it's the direct opposite of creating something, which has to do with taking things and putting them together and hoping to make something unique that's more than the sum of its parts. And you can't do that with analysis, you can only take things into smaller and smaller pieces.Collection: Writing
Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.Collection: Writing
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.Collection: Writing
While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.Collection: Writing
Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.Collection: Writing
Writing's deeper function is to serve as a way to find shapes and names for the world as you have come to know it; to find on paper what you know and feel.Collection: Writing
Obviously I love writing with Katy [Pery], I feel like we're the same person when we write together. Even though we fight a lot, we fight over every line and we pull each other's hair and we cat-fight all the time, it's always worth it in the end.Collection: Writing
I'd like to go the Cher route and act and sing and write and have a TV show and do it all.Collection: Writing
When I go and write with other artists - a lot of the time it's with them - it's like a therapy session almost. I ask them what they're listening to and what they're going through and what their influences are and I try to get inside of their head and step into their shoes for a second.Collection: Writing
It's just funny that anybody would care at all to take apart the words that I write. It's kind of cool!Collection: Writing
I'm always trying to make movies. It's what I love to do more than anything. I love to write and direct.Collection: Writing
I think the underlying purpose is expression. It's not about technique, it's not about hitting the right note, writing the perfect prose, having the perfect brushstroke. It's about expression of oneself, the things around you, and the emotions. I think expression is the one word that I would use, whether it's for sorrow, tragedy, joy, or even the need to express and be heard.Collection: Writing
Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.Collection: Writing
I like to write from my life and the relationships that make it up. I think its important to use music to change people's moods. I try to write my story in a way that people can take for themselves and their own life.Collection: Writing
It never occurred to me that there was anything odd about writing my own music, and so I used to just jot down little ditties and things like that. And it was only in later years I suppose when I was about nine or so, that I realised there was this thing called composing.Collection: Writing
Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of texts are being produced that call for budding readers rather different from those who studied literature in the past.Collection: Writing
The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.Collection: Writing
I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.Collection: Writing
I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.Collection: Writing
My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.Collection: Writing
I think the thing that interests most actors these days is the strength and the quality of the writing. I think that's the main thing.Collection: Writing
A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.Collection: Writing
If I wish to be well in my mind, then I must write, and there is no cure for my ambition, and thank the Lord for that.Collection: Writing
I've had the idea since high school, of writing music just for voices, just a choir. I don't know if I'll ever get around to doing it, but I'd definitely be excited about trying to pull that off at some point. It definitely seems like an older-me kind of project.Collection: Writing
New Haven cultivates ... an open gloom that seems happy to acknowledge disrepair and the superfluity of appearance. ... I realized that what cramped the town was the weight of unwritten volumes: they scored lines of unfinished writing on every second face that walked the streets.Collection: Writing
Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.Collection: Writing
I'm gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I'm feeling that day.Collection: Writing
I'm not used to writing about happy emotions, I'm just used to pulling from my sad or angry - happy emotions are very hard for me to portray in music.Collection: Writing
Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it.Collection: Writing
Our audience holds us to an incredibly high standard of continuity and emotional authenticity. We don't toy with that, but oftentimes we write stories, in order to spark debate. We're very determined to always give the answer. We don't want to leave a lot of things open to debate, at the end of the day.Collection: Writing
hen, there's such a temptation to just constantly write things that are going to make the fans happy. Sometimes it takes a little bit of unhappiness to make those happy pay-offs work better. That's something that is fascinating to us and I think has really changed the way that stories are told.Collection: Writing
We just keep making the shows that we love, and the good news is that we can never rest on our laurels, knowing that we're going to be on forever. We're constantly challenged to write the very best story that we can, week in and week out, hoping that that will allow us to keep telling more of them.Collection: Writing
I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.Collection: Writing
I'm not a dictator who writes things to tell people what to do.Collection: Writing