Quotes by Writing My husband has no desire to work with me. He gets paid a lot of money to write giant movies. He's not into humoring me with my projects. Busy Philipps husbanddesirewriting As my kid gets a little bit older, if I feel like I have a little bit more time on my hands, I'd like to get more into developing ideas and writing things. Busy Philipps writingkidshands Writing is difficult. It's a time commitment, it's labor and I'd have to get myself to sit down and actually do the work and outline. Busy Philipps down-andwritingcommitment I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something. Get a life. You'll learn a lot more, and you won't write a lot of rotten poetry. Butch Hancock homewritingjobs If you can just focus on creating your art whether that's music or writing a book or painting trust me it is really hard to balance that with a personal life. You have to be willing to sacrifice sometimes things in your personal life if your ultimate goal is to pursue things as an artist. Butch Vig writingbookart I'd work on Garbage or I'd edit a song or writing here, but I was able to do a lot of things with my family. There are things outside of Garbage, the whole band has come to realize that we need things like that. That's why we took that break. Garbage had swallowed us up and had become a full time obsession for us and we needed to escape that and reclaim our old lives. Butch Vig obsessionwritingsong When you write a song that is so personal to yourself, it's really hard to picture anybody else understanding it when you're singing it. There's things that are very broad and universal topics. Those are the songs that might work for others. Butch Walker understandingwritingsong I really enjoy writing lyrics, I enjoy harmonies and I enjoy hearing the organic side of production because I have to do so much non- organic for a living for other artists, it's just a break for me, for my ears and it confuses people that think my music is supposed to sound like the stuff I do for my day job, but that's just people that don't know me. Butch Walker artistwritingjobs What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars? Buzz Aldrin viewshomewriting I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that. Buzz Bissinger purplewritinglittles Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around. Byron Katie fourjudgingwriting Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing. Byron Katie lightmindwriting An uncomfortable feeling is not an enemy. It's a gift that says, "Get honest; inquire." We reach out for alcohol, or television, or credit cards, so we can focus out there and not have to look at the feeling. And that's as it should be, because in our innocence we haven't known how. So now what we can do is reach out for a paper and a pencil, write thought down, and investigate. Byron Katie uncomfortable-feelinghonestywriting We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision. Byron White governmentdecisionwriting To the folks asking how they can become a comics writer if Marvel doesn't accept submissions... YOU WRITE COMICS!! C. B. Cebulski comic-bookaskingwriting ...By a 'silly' theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but which only an inmate of a lunatic asylum would think of carrying into daily life. ... It must not be supposed that the men who maintain these theories and beliefs are 'silly' people. Only very acute and learned men could have thought of anything so odd or defended anything so preposterous against the continual protests of common sense. C. D. Broad sillywritingmean The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you. C. E. M. Joad successfulsecretwriting I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline. C. J. Box realwritingsports I do like the research part of writing, I must admit. C. J. Box researchwriting It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly. C. J. Cherryh garbagewritinglong«185186187188189190191192193194195»
