Quotes by Writing I looked at myself, and I just said, well, you know, I can sing but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world... And so I said, well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing. Bruce Springsteen guitarplayerwriting I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along. Bruce Springsteen agewritingbirthday I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18. Bruce Springsteen writingyearsideas The book was just something that came along after we played the Super Bowl and I wrote a little essay that went online. Then I had two or three weeks and I said, wow, that essay was pretty good. Maybe I'll try and write some other stuff. Writing about the depression, I just felt - you know, when you write a book like this, you have to open up your life. You have to be willing to do so to a certain degree. Bruce Springsteen writingtwobook You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I wrote a little essay and I felt, yeah, this is a good voice. This is a good feeling. It feels like me. Bruce Springsteen voicewritingbook I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life. Bruce Springsteen recordsplaywriting The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about. Bruce Springsteen sawsparentwriting I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people. Bruce Springsteen writingsongpeople I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song? Bruce Springsteen writingsongthinking I always write with an audience in mind. If I feel that [connection] coming back at me then I feel like I'm doing my job. That's why people come to my music - for some emotional experience or a perspective, either on their own lives, or on the world that they're living in. Bruce Springsteen emotionalwritingjobs You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues of the day. And you have to continue to make good, relevant records. Bruce Springsteen issueswritingtwo I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in. Bruce Springsteen writingbelievepeople I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done. Bruce Springsteen donewritingsong I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs. Bruce Springsteen homewritingsong I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote. Bruce Sterling datanameswriting I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it. Bruce Sterling fiction-and-nonfictionresearchwriting Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it. Bruce Sterling cynicalwritingsong I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here. Bruce Sterling distanceintellectualwriting I do a lot of screen re-writing. Bruce Vilanch screenswriting I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees. Bruce Vilanch moviewritingpeople«181182183184185186187188189190191»
