Quotes by Writing When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out. Alanis Morissette intellectualwritingsong The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs. Alanis Morissette defaultwritingsong I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question. Alanis Morissette writing-songswritingsong I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes. Alanis Morissette writingsongpeople I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that! Alanis Morissette recordswriting I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed. Alanis Morissette i-canifswriting There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in. Alanis Morissette dresseshomewriting Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage. Alanis Morissette musicwritingsong I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer. Alanis Morissette well-knownwritingbook When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman. Alanis Morissette angerwritingsong But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly. Alanis Morissette sicksharewriting I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing. Alanis Morissette pianoexpressionwriting It's exciting for people to define who they are in relation to what I write - whether it be by loving or hating it. Alanis Morissette hatewritingpeople Writing the record for me - every record is almost a surprise. When people ask me, what are the themes you want to grapple with on this one? I have no idea until the record's finished. Alanis Morissette writingpeopleideas From the writing stage, I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adolescent unrest and self-destructive behavior. Talking about adolescence, I wanted to make a very musical film that was also a love story with a sensorial, sensual dimension and which had a strong emotional impact. Alante Kavaite emotionalstrongwriting ...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining. Alasdair Gray wantwritingworld Cornelius Cardew very famous in Britain, because he was the darling of the avant-garde, and he played in a band called AMM, which was an improvising band in the '60s. Paul McCartney used to come watch them. Later on in life, he became disenchanted with avant-garde music, because he felt it couldn't reach the public. It didn't have a wide enough appeal. So he'd take these tunes of old English folk songs and write Stalinist lyrics over the top of them. I do think that when he changed to folk songs, he actually lost the tiny audience he already had, which is quite interesting. Alasdair MacLean writingsongthinking I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity. Alastair Campbell writingcountrybook I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail. Alber Elbaz smswritingthinking A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books. Alber Elbaz writingsongbook«2122232425262728293031»
