When I began to cover songs for YouTube, they all tended to be in the super pop-genre.. as in, smash-hit songs. My… — Alex Goot Copy Share Image
Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“Writing is like surfing on a wild sea, in the middle of a moonless night, in a hailstorm, on a deserted island.… — Heena Rathore P Copy Share Image
My writing process is consecutive, like, 'mad scientist' crazy. It's not totally writing something that rhymes or even writing a rap necessarily.… — J.I.D Copy Share Image
“At it's best,the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look… — Annie Dillard (Author Copy Share Image
I'm pretty critical, but I'm also pretty good at letting go once it's done. There's this existential argument that comes in, at… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
“Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge in the research process is to let go, to stop, to say enough, and then to reduce all of… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
Sometimes touring can warp reality because you're never in one place long enough to get a feel for it. You don't interact… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
“A good plot is like a well-crafted puzzle. Each piece is vital to the bigger picture, connecting to each other to tell… — Janice Hardy Copy Share Image
“Being self-employed means you work 12 hours a day for yourself so you don't have to work 8 hours a day for someone else.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.” — Midnight Taylor Copy Share Image
“Writing is one method for revising a person’s outlook on life and observing the world and one’s place therein from an altered… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
There are still songs that I'm writing. I like to write. I like to take a long time to do my songs,… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
“Writing is like painting a painting. Layer over layer over layer.” — Kevin James Breaux Copy Share Image
“...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're writing a song and you have an image whilst writing a song. I don't think you ever base a songwriting… — Luke Hemmings Copy Share Image
Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
“Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.” — Françoise Sagan Copy Share Image
“A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you’re not scared, you’re not writing. — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
Each book starts from ashes really. I don't feel that I have this to say or that to say or this story… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
