Suzanne Vega Quotes about Writing

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

Writing, Way, Direct

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.

Suzanne Vega

Writing, Form, Feels

Suzanne Vega (1999). “The passionate eye: the collected writing of Suzanne Vega”, Avon Books

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that theres a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.

Suzanne Vega

Writing, Voice, Details

"Solo: Women Singer-songwriters in Their Own Words". Book by Marc Woodworth, 1998.

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

Suzanne Vega

Song, Writing, Intimacy

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

Suzanne Vega

Writing, Civilized

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.

Suzanne Vega

Song, Writing, Order

Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.

Suzanne Vega

Writing, Issues, People

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. That's why I write the way I do.

Suzanne Vega

Song, Smart, Writing

Suzanne Vega Quotes about Writing

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