Quotes by category:Writing

The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It's not that I'm not interested-it's not where I live. I live inside the story.

stories writing looks

If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work you set for yourself. That done, be the untutored traveler, the eager reader, the enthusiastic listener. Put what you learn together carefully, and then write thoughtfully, with respect both for the reader and your sources.

together writing advice

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

writing beautiful hands

I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don't look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don't look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That's what I do.

piano writing jobs

I believe in my writing. by Barry Manilow

I believe in my writing.

i-believe writing believe

'If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn't a single and people didn't really know about it, but it's a beautiful song and that's part of what I'm loving.

writing song beautiful

To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.

sky writing song

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

writing running song

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

inspiration writing song

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

creative writing song

You can get stale writing with each other for a while. by Barry Mann

You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

creating mad writing

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

waiting writing thinking

I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

writing insanity thinking

You have to be very brave in that first writing session. by Barry Mann

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

brave writing firsts

By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.

able technology writing

All I had was the will and the love for music. I couldn't read music or write it. No connections, no car, no money, no bankroll, no clothes, no nothing.

clothes car writing

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.

fool boring writing

I just write mechanical things. by Barry Zito

I just write mechanical things.

[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need to evaluate—whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama.

live-life writing needs