Fiction Quote by Jake Shears Download Open image “I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.” — Jake Shears ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Miss Moment Started Time Writing Writing fiction Writing songs
I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I've always loved to write, and I wrote fiction all my life. That's what I thought I was going to do in my life… — Jake Shears Copy Share Image
I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was always more… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I started writing songs later in life because I just couldn't commit to it before. — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
I'm a songwriter, my love of music has never left me and I literally don't seem to be able to stop writing songs, they… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal. I've just… — Jason Reeves Copy Share Image
I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit down, and… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
I've always loved to write, and I wrote fiction all my life. That's what I thought I was going to do in my life… — Jake Shears Copy Share Image
I just like to work with other people, and I like things that are kind of a little bit bigger than that. I don't… — Jake Shears Copy Share Image
I don't let things stress me out, and I'm doing my best with all the battles life presents. — Jake Shears Copy Share Image
Being able to afford getting groceries - it frees people up to be creative. I think when you're spending 16 hours of every day… — Jake Shears Copy Share Image
I came out when I was 15 at school, and I realized I had put myself into a precarious situation. It was a very… — Jake Shears Copy Share Image
L.A. will never, ever, ever, ever be my town. It'll never be my town. It's not New York. — Jake Shears Copy Share Image
My mom's a Christian and she loves me; that whole side of my family is Christian and I have no problem with it. — Jake Shears Copy Share Image
I do think it's possible to change people's minds - it's one of my goals with my music. — Jake Shears Copy Share Image
I've been a much happier person in my early thirties than I was in my twenties. — Jake Shears Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
