There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything back to reality. He was a brilliant guy. He was an aerospace engineer and an entrepreneur. We were just starting to write new songs two weeks after he died. We were still grieving. So that was naturally a big subject matter for the album.
Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.
I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.
I'm really interested in starting to write my own songs. I never really did, but hopefully I will because I'm so interested in writing my own songs.
When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.
I start my process hand written, and then I dump it in. It's like you're getting a second draft 'cause when I put it in the computer, I fix it and change stuff. That's my process. I picked that up from speaking to Neil Gaiman and Joe Hill. I was messing around with the idea of starting to write more, writing a book and doing things like this, and I reached out for advice. They were like, "Oh, we hand write, and then we dump it all in." I was like, "Great! There's no more blank pages."
As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write.
When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
That's one of the things about comedy that annoys me the most from a comedian perspective. Comedy has gotten so segregated. Now it's like if you don't agree with somebody, you probably aren't going to like their jokes. I think comedians are starting to write for their audience and not towards the country.
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don't want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who has been hired to teach at a writing workshop solely because of his name's ability to attract students, rather than because of any teaching skill. You should not have to grapple with someone who secretly thinks you should be writing about his life rather than your own.
Writing is harder than anything else; at least starting to write is.
I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.
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