Patti Smith Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

  Patti Smith

  Book, Writing, Shelves

  "The Saturday interview: Patti Smith". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2011.

• Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Pursuit, Awake

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.279, A&C Black

• Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

  Patti Smith

  Freedom, Writing, Wrong Words

• I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Artist, Drawing

• I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any mouth. When I write I may be a Brando creep, or a girl laying on the floor, or a Japanese tourist, or a slob like Richard Speck. You have to be a chameleon when you're writing.

  Patti Smith

  Girl, Writing, Men

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

• Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When I'm writing a song, I imagine performing it. I imagine giving it. It's a different aspect of communication. It's for the people.

  Patti Smith

  Song, Communication, Writing

• Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.

  Patti Smith

  Song, Writing, Hardest

• Writing is not some quiet, closet act.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Quiet, Closets

• It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.

  Patti Smith

  Reading, Writing, Long

  "American icon". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2003.

• All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.

  Patti Smith

  Art, Writing, Love Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I was home, traditionally since I was young, I'd write in cafés. That was the romantic notion in 1963. Café atmospheres back then were different. The café life really stemmed from the Parisians' idea of it, with poets struggling over their poems and drinking coffee. No music, no sounds, maybe a little jazz, or soul, but mostly nothing. Now you go into a café and the music is really loud, people are having business meetings, they are on their cellphones. It changes from generation to generation.

  Patti Smith

  Drinking, Coffee, Struggle

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.

  Patti Smith

  Taken, Writing, Mean

  "The Saturday interview: Patti Smith". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2011.

• I don't consider writing a quiet, closet act.
  I consider it a real physical act.
  When I'm home writing on the typewriter, I go crazy.
  I move like a monkey.
  I've wet myself, I've come in my pants writing.

  Patti Smith

  Crazy, Real, Moving

• I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of myself as a performer. It's always been writing for me. I evolved with my band in rock 'n' roll through poetry, not through music.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.pbs.org

• We all make choices. Believe me, I would like to write the hit of the world. It's not like I have any desire to be in the shadows. My vision isn't marketing. Some people want to sell 6 million albums. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just not what I do. I'd rather look at a piece of work and say it's great rather than it's successful.

  Patti Smith

  Believe, Writing, Successful

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Drawing, Looks

• After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Mind, Pieces

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

• I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Aspect, Small Parts

  "The Private World of Patti Smith". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 30, 2015.

• What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Solitude, Impulse

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Secret, Desire

• I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.

  Patti Smith

  Drinking, Writing, Drug

  "The Private World of Patti Smith". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 30, 2015.

• I find it painful when I'm without anything. But I work in multiple fields. If I can't write, I find myself taking photographs. I can go on the road and perform. But the most important thing for me is writing, and when I hit those walls, it's painful.

  Patti Smith

  Wall, Writing, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I really don't want somebody writing something positive about me if they don't believe in it. I'd rather somebody write something real mean. I like reading bad stuff, it gets me excited. In fact, the only reviews I keep are the bad ones 'cause I think they're the cool ones.

  Patti Smith

  Real, Believe, Reading

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

• I wasn't writing, I wasn't drawing, and personality-wise, I was just completely arrogant. I'm not trying to be overly apologetic for my behavior - I wasn't evil. The lifestyle I had was one that lent itself to becoming more and more self-involved.

  Patti Smith

  Wise, Writing, Self

  "The Private World of Patti Smith". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 30, 2015.

• I like making records right now 'cause I can express myself that way in a very immediate, physical sense. You can always write a book, but you can't always do a rock 'n' roll record that's gonna work.

  Patti Smith

  Book, Writing, Rocks

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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