#writing

In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact. ↗

— Hal David

#i #impact #search #simplicity #writing

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#business #every #every time #folk #folk music

I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#become #bit #close #close friends #down

It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#again #analytical #began #community #connecting

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#cohesive #did #disparate #even #form

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap? ↗

— Dennis Farina

#crap #days #go #i #jesus

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#art #artists #before #collaborated #colleges

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#book #dull #enjoy #generally #histories

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#bit #certainly #different #different thing #done

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote. ↗

— H. C. Bunner

#lived #note #quote #shakespeare #things