Quotes by Writing Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given . . . this is who you are, and from where you ought and need to write. Bret Lott viewswritingneeds I'm addicted to creating and writing. Bret Michaels creatingwriting I have been writing about Hillary Clinton, I just actually looked this up, since 1998 when she was busy standing by when Suha Arafat was launching anti-Semitic tirades against Israel and the Jews. Bret Stephens israelbusywriting If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me. Brett Dennen writingsongmen As an artist I write about the world I want to live in. And as a musician and someone who is in the public eye, I think you have this responsibility to influence people. So I try influence people to live from their heart and make conscious decisions , and I try just inspire people to make positive change. That's purely the reason I do it. I want to see the world get better, you know? Brett Dennen eyeheartwriting Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to song writing. Brett Dennen writingsongthinking I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart. Brett Dennen heartwritingsong I can write songs, but I'm not gonna really feel good about the song unless it feels like me, and I'm not gonna release a song or put it on an album or play it in concert unless it really feels like me. Brett Dennen playwritingsong When you get to say something in a song you're not directing it necessarily at one person. When it's in a song it's easier to get it out. I don't really worry so much about it when I'm writing a song. Brett Dennen worrywritingsong I sing the best when I'm really in my voice. It's kind of like I'm meditating but I sort of imagine my voice as a physical thing. I see colours, I feel it moving out of me and I try to tap into images that I was tapping into when I was writing the song. Brett Dennen writingsongmoving I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time. Brett Dennen alone-timeinspirationwriting I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work. Brett Dennen high-standardswritingsong I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college. Brett Dennen collegewritingsong I'd write over and over, 'I will not throw into coverage.' Brett Favre inspirationwritingfootball I learn more from the audience than I can from anybody else. Not from what they write on the scorecards, but how they respond to the movie while they're watching it - where they laugh and where they react. Brett Ratner audiencewritinglaughing Whoever writes a bad review, I put their name on a list, and they're going to get taken care of one day down the road. Otherwise, I don't let it bother me. The truth is, these are review-proof movies. The audiences are going to see it. My audience, our audience, isn't reading Esquire magazine to see if my movie is good or not. They just want to laugh, to be entertained, and lose themselves. Brett Ratner takenreadingwriting I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone. Brewster Ghiselin suspectsmentorwriting I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one. Breyten Breytenbach curiouswritingthinking There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder. Brian Aldiss writingtwothinking A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)? Brian Aldiss more-moneyshouldwriting«172173174175176177178179180181182»
