Writing is better if it’s kept simple. Every sentence doesn’t need to have perfect noun/verb agreement. I’ve said ‘ain’t’ on the air. Because I sometimes use ‘ain’t’ when I’m talking. – Stuart Scott
I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination. – Samantha Shannon
All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel. – Shooter Jennings
I’m not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them. – Steven Spielberg
Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it’s not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics. – Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Since my woman’s world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing – and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes. – Sylvia Plath
I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way. – Val McDermid
When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions of classic bipolar disorder. I met other patients who had been diagnosed with myriad disorders. No doctor seemed to agree about what they actually suffered from. – Siri Hustvedt
For me, ‘risky’ is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is. – Taylor Swift
Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing. – Valerie June
I don’t feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That’s what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it. – Van Morrison
I try to be very honest in my writing. It’s amazing, though, to think that people are responding to what we do, but it’s okay if they’re responding in a positive way too, because I think just creating anything at all to put out there is a gift. – Tavi Gevinson
The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books. – Sidney Sheldon
During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk – they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print. – Tom Rachman
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject’s unabashed difficulty. – Will Self
I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing. – Zack Snyder
I am not a performing seal. In your writing, you are tapping into the part that is ‘the best’ in you. But what you are also filters through in your writing your prejudices, your bitterness. I am not a pretentious person. – Twinkle Khanna
I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters. – Tim Blake Nelson
When I first have an idea, I’ll spit-ball it with my husband: he’s my beautiful ideas sounding board. I usually have a year deadline from start to finish, so I’ll piss about for three months and pretend to get started. Then there’s four to six months of actual writing and, after that, submissions, edits, and eventually a finished product. – Zoe Foster Blake
When I was in high school, I remember writing a research paper, and the teacher said I should write about Langston Hughes. I felt as if I was the only black dude who didn’t like Langston Hughes. He didn’t seem as dark and layered as someone like Flannery O’Connor. – Terrance Hayes
When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors. – Stephen Sondheim
I didn’t feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel. – Tom Lehrer
The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say. – William A. Dembski
When I’m writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven’t left me. – Sadie Jones
I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it’s going to end as I’m writing it. – Ted Bell
It wasn’t until I was working on ‘Tacky’ that I admitted to myself that I was writing a series. – Steven Brust