#writing

Even today I keep a Dream Journal. It's whatever's going on in my subconscious, or things from dreams or even interesting items that pop into my head. I have thousands of pages of notes which I hope someday will turn into stories, or movies...Being on the road gives me breathing time and the opportunity to think about what to do next. In fact right before I came down for lunch today, I was writing down notes about my feelings. Things that I need to do to keep motivated. I need to be motivated if I am to going to devote fifteen months to writing another book. And I couldn't write a book just because it's a commercial idea. I need to have a compelling reason. ↗

— Clive Barker

#dreams

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark. ↗

— Vanilla Ice

#album #am #anger #anxiety #came

This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen. ↗

— Vanilla Ice

#am #beat #been #direction #drum

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting. ↗

— Neil Innes

#goes #gorilla #i #mean #our

Isolation is a big part of songwriting. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#isolation #part #songwriting

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#conscious #conscious thought #esquire #i #scholar

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme. ↗

— Diane Johnson

#already #apparent #becomes #deepening #end

As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write, might achieve esteem and success equal to her great novel, but that its emotional heart would lie in her own unhappiness for having failed to find the one thing she wanted. For the first time she was a character in her own writing, and her frailties and mistakes were trapped on the page by the beauty and unsparing focus of her prose. Towards the end it was a battle to finish a page. The story was the story she had told herself for decades, deep within her own mind, and now as it grew, line by line, on the paper before her, she wrestled with each turn in the path all over again, as if it were still possible to change its course with the power of her words. ↗

— Frederick Weisel

#failing #frederick-weisel #story #teller #weisel

I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation. ↗

— R. Kelly

#just #notice #people #real #situation

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#inspirational #writing #attitude