Quotes and Sayings About Writing

Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of "I's," and a listening audience somehow turns each "I" into a "me." This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
-- Adam Gopnik

#Sex #Writing #Self

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
-- Adam Gopnik

#Writing #Climate #Kind

So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.
-- Adam Kirsch

#Writing #Intelligent #Answers

After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.
-- Adam Lambert

#Home #Writing #My Boyfriend

It's a really big struggle for me to write a song. Songs take either 30 seconds for me to write or a year or two to piece together, depending on the song and how I'm feeling on any given day. I don't really like to write music at all unless I am completely unbothered by touring.
-- Adam Levine

#Song #Struggle #Writing

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.
-- Adam Levine

#Song #Writing #Play

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.
-- Adam Pascal

#Inspiration #Writing #Scare

One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
-- Adam Rapp

#Writing #Play #People

I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him. When I write, that takes over and I can't do anything else. There's something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up. I've lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
-- Adam Rapp

#Dog #Fall #Writing

Man, that's the only kind of book I like – one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know about the person who wrote it, like how tall he is and what kind of music he likes and whether or not he really went through all the stuff he was writing about.
-- Adam Rapp

#Real #Book #Writing

I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.
-- Adam Rapp

#Character #Writing #Gun

[J.Lo] found us a police car. Sort of. 'It's not a police car,' I said. 'It is,' said J.Lo. 'Looknow. Lights for flashing.' 'That's true.' 'Writing on the sides.' 'Yeah, but the writing? It says ''BullShake Party Patrol.'' Yes. Whatnow?
-- Adam Rex

#Party #Writing #Light

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.
-- Adam Rich

#Song #Writing #Trying

I really didn't think about song writing.
-- Adam Rich

#Song #Writing #Thinking

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.
-- Adam Rich

#Meaningful #Writing #People

A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.
-- Adam Rich

#Writing #Labels #Band

Bad spellers of the world untie!
-- Adam Savage

#Writing #Editing #World

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
-- Adam Savage

#Writing #Differences

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.
-- Adam Young

#Dream #Writing #Color

Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.
-- Adam Zagajewski

#Writing #Tree #Cuneiform

And now, advice for beginning mystics. Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can. Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something. Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it's an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.
-- Adam Zagajewski

#Spiritual #Writing #Intelligent

Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.
-- Adele

#Song #Writing #Mean

The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, 'Oh my God, this song is totally about me.'
-- Adele

#Song #Believe #Writing

I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.
-- Adele

#Song #Writing #Opportunity

If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don't know what I'll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch.
-- Adele

#Nice #Writing #Kids

I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.
-- Adele

#Breakup #Writing #Done

I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.
-- Adele

#Song #Self Esteem #Writing

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.
-- Adele

#Song #Writing #Heart

If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.
-- Adele

#Song #Writing #Years

I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.
-- Adele

#Breakup #Writing #Thinking