Quotes by Writing At the end of the day, we have to write music that makes us happy and the day that we stop loving what we do…we’ll quit. Caleb Followill quittingthe-end-of-the-daywriting The problem is when you write the album, you record all the instruments, you edit the whole thing and then you have to mix it. You start to get out of touch with the songs and it becomes math. Caleb Shomo mathwritingsong I love a little more driving rock and roll vibe and that kind of music has always spoke to me. I guess it just rubs off when I'm writing music. Caleb Shomo rock-and-rollrockswriting I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority. Callie Khouri authoritywritingfeels I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television. Callie Khouri writingtelevisionthinking We have a lot of women on the staff, obviously. It's a predominantly female writing staff and we hire the best people. It's not like we go we need more women or we need four women directing. Callie Khouri femalewritingpeople You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, Callimachus laughterwinewriting Our problem is this: we usually discover him within some denominational or Christian ghetto. We meet him in a province and, having caught some little view, we paint him in smaller strokes. The Lion of Judah is reduced to something kittenish because our understanding cannot, at first, write larger definitions. Calvin Miller christianwritingjesus As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler. Calvin Trillin soundwritinginspirational In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses. Calvin Trillin eventswritingamerica I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot. Calvin Trillin self-confidencewritingthinking There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. So it sort of selects itself. It has to. And plus, often something that wouldn't be funny at the time is okay to make jokes about later. Calvin Trillin inappropriatesourcewriting A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed. Calvin Trillin lunchwritingbook What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place. Calvin Trillin interestwritingmight You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.' Calvin Trillin sundaymondaywriting If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. Calvin Trillin inappropriateifswriting When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery. Calvin Trillin deliverywriting Take it from your own life, write what you believe in. Cameron Crowe writingbelieve I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me. Cameron Crowe powerfulwritingsong The current state of music journalism is not bad, but it's not great at all. Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool. But there are too many magazines, and the access has been diminished, so the quality of profiles has gone way down. Internet stuff can be really good, though. I like the dialogue between fans on the Internet. I think that's the best rock writing that's going on right now. Cameron Crowe rappassionwriting«189190191192193194195196197198199»
