Writing Quotes - Page 94

Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.

Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed, an architectural one, where it is constructed, and finally a textile one, where it is woven.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead of singing, blow your guitar and ring the horn. Hate mathematics, and love eddies. Creation is a bird without a flight plan, that will never fly in a straight line.

In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush.

I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it.

When you're actually making a film, it's just people on your back all the time wanting stuff and you're constantly having to it deal with them. It's probably the most time consuming of all the arts, but I do love it because it is a great mix of visual art and music and writing.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.

The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.

Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.

Writing is a supernatural thing.

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.

I often tell people to stop being afraid of writing bad poetry, or bad anything. I think that a lot of times, when people claim that they have writer's block, or that they get stuck, it's just because they're scared of writing bad things.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy.

It is just that heavy metal musicians write in minor keys, and when you do that, you frighten people.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.