Quotes by Writing I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters. Amy Grant writingsongthinking To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it. Amy Grant writingsongideas Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open. Amy Hempel writingdoorssometimes I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story. Amy Hempel endsstorieswriting Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to get rid of anything nonessential. You go in, you start writing your article, assuming a person's going to stop reading the minute you give them a reason. So the trick is: don't give them one. Amy Hempel readingwritinggiving I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that they’re dog, and that’s what dogs do. Amy Hempel dogwritingnumbers I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I know at the start what the last line will be, I know when I've reached that point as logically as I can that it's finished. As for the rewriting-it's not foolproof, of course, but if you're honest about having thought of every possibility and you still come back to what you have, what more can you do? Amy Hempel lineswritingthinking Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. Amy Hempel wantwritinginteresting I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily. Amy Hempel news-storieswritingideas When the writing is good and it suits your character, you don't have to memorize anything, because it just makes sense. You read it and you go, "Oh, that makes sense." And it's easy. Amy Hill suitswritingcharacter I have people say that they love how I keep them off balance as to what is real or not real about pretty much everything I write. I think it's an accurate description of how I feel every day. I can't tell what's real and what's not anymore. I think that's what makes art. Amy King realwritingart I do write about thinkers. And that's what I love about reading. My favorite books, the ones that made me sit there for days, weeks, months, years, and pop back into my head - they make me think a lot. Amy King readingwritingbook I'm a mom first. That's all I really care about - being a good mom and a good wife. The writing always comes second for me. Amy Koppelman wifemomwriting I'm singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing. Amy Lee singingheartwriting My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live! Amy Lee epicdarkwriting My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film. Amy Lee filmdreamwriting I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that's what consumes me; think a lot of our heart is relationships. Not just with boyfriend or girlfriend but all your relationships in your life with other people and our interactions with other humans. Amy Lee girlfriendheartwriting I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with. Amy Lee tableswritingway Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying! Amy Lee purifyingmusic-iswriting I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done. Amy Lowell agonycreatingwriting«5152535455565758596061»
