#writing

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

#always #artists #away #because #being

My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#fancy #focusing #i #i think #kind

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day. ↗

— William Allingham

#each #learning #more #nothing #say

I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#another #anything #because #chose #courses

I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It's sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#approach #change #decision #designing #director

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. ↗

— Sholem Asch

#easily #more #say #something #writing

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page. ↗

— Joan Baez

#been #come #crawled #down #good

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#coming #death #end #freedom #haunt

At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#asking #asking questions #call #comes #creating

My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#could #hard #i #income #like