#writing

I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about. ↗

— Ice T

#beat #better #could #figured #first

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#culture #everything #makes #should #writing

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#always #big #collection #collector #fights

When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#analytical #doing #get #i #something

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#big #enjoy #i #long #novel

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#admire #american #american writer #essay #finished

On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#been #business #devices #hand #i

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#almost #am #color #concentrating #concrete

Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage. ↗

— Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum

#life

I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording. ↗

— Roger Andrew Taylor

#constant #exhausted #five #i #i think