I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they’re on target.
If one of my romantic-comedy colleagues had written and directed ‘Love Actually,’ they would have been torn limb from limb. I thought it was awful, contrived, dreadful. I could see every twist and turn. I thought it was despicable. It was the writing that got me.
We’ve written something like 900 songs in all.
This time all the historical details and things were right. But I’d written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.
I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoidably clear. This is not directionless action. If it were, the media would have moved on.
It’s one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you’re doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.
The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I’ve written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.
We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‘We, the people.’
The more you put out there, the more you have to resolve. ‘Air’ is the most literary comic I’ve written so far, and that poses problems.
Some days I feel good about my work, and sometimes I feel I’ve never written anything worthwhile. That’s par for the course.
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.
I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.
It’s very rare that we play a gig and we all come off and say ‘That was great, I had a great time!’ There’s always someone that’s had a bad time. So the goal is always to achieve the next level of performing the piece that you’ve written. You’re looking for something that you haven’t even captured on the album.
I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.
‘Groundhog Day’ was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn’t even get nominated for an Academy Award.
For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to ‘mince about’ was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!
It’s just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that’s what I’m here to do.
I love words. They’re fun. I don’t think any word can just be filler. There’s no room for it. It’s like a puzzle. Every song can be written a million times. How can you say it differently?
I avoid social media and articles written about me, because I’m human and negative comments pollute my head and make me feel confused about myself.
My music is often written from the perspective of an extroverted introvert.
Great touch is often written off simply as ‘talent,’ which is crucial, because a good swing can take a golfer only so far. I’ve seen thousands of fantastic swings in my day, but that doesn’t guarantee anything.
I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.
You get to thinking that because you’ve written 50 or 100 songs, you think maybe you know how to do it. But when they’re not coming along, you’re just as in the dark as you ever were. When they’re coming along, there’s nothing to it. Sometimes it’s so easy, it’s like you’re a court stenographer.
The written word can be powerful and beautiful – but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
‘Time after Time’ is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It’s an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.
I think I learned a lot from reading in general – even from reading badly written books.
Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.
I don’t think I’ve ever actually written from inspiration, actually had a song just go, ‘Bing!’ I only recall that happening to me twice – once was with ‘Terrapin’ and the other was ‘Wharf Rat.’ I mean, that’s twice in a lifetime of writing!
Well, ‘The Wellspring’ was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others’ experience.
The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It’s not a blank slate, but it isn’t written in stone, either.
Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music – not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live.
I dare not stay home while Quichuas perish. What if the well-filled church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptures, Moses, and the prophets, and a whole lot more. Their condemnation is written on their bank books and in the dust on their Bible covers.
I haven’t written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you’re likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.
I don’t know how I do it, but I’ve written about everything. I’ve written about my shoes.
‘Turn to Stone’ was written about the Nixon administration and the Vietnam War and the protesting that was going on and all of that. It’s a song about frustration. Also, I attended Kent State.
‘In Case You Didn’t Know’ was written in Mexico, actually, on a songwriter’s retreat.
They were written in the early ’90s when I was strapped for cash.
‘Nation’ was one that I’d have killed myself if I hadn’t written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.
I write sets of books, but I’ve also written a lot of orphans.
I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can’t put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.
I wish I had a nickel for every song that I’ve left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about.
I’m 16 now, I was 15 when it happened… and the encryption code wasn’t in fact written by me, but written by the German member. There seems to be a bit of confusion about that part.
Books written by boys are given very different treatment to those written by girls: they’re even given very different covers. People also expect, in this YA-booming world, girls to be less experimental than boys: girls are achieving a lot of success, but they’re confined.
I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.
Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.
I write the songs and hand it over to the world and see what happens. But the things that I’ve written for people that have been hits, I don’t know that I would have directed them in the right path, but they definitely wound up on the right path.
Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey.
I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows.
When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.
Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.
I am a very slow reader. I have to have things written in a pithy way.
My experience is that prose usually equals duty – last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
