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Writing Quotes by Nick Cave
- I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
- I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.
- If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.
- The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something…
- Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
- Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as…
- You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.
- I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what…
- I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in…
- I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in…
- I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look…
- I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed…
- I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as…
- The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of…
- The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in…
- The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these…
- Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people…
- I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.
- The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
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- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov