#i write

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later. ↗

— Evan Dando

#come #first #i #i write #later

I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different. ↗

— Mos Def

#control #different #experience #hip-hop #how

We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs. ↗

— John Denver

#call #choices #conscious #heart #i

When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people. ↗

— Bruce Dickinson

#i #i write #maiden #only #outside

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. ↗

— Joan Didion

#fear #find #i #i see #i write

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#i #i write #idea #itself #know

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#i #i write #never #really #themes

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#been #blessed #comes #cursed #either

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#am #because #birth #care #child

I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies. ↗

— Jesse Eisenberg

#get #hard #i #i write #love