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I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that's what consumes me; think a lot of our heart is relationships. Not just with boyfriend or girlfriend but all your relationships in your life with other people and our interactions with other humans.

Life Heart People Me Writing Think

I can remember - barely - when Elton John was still a good songwriter, or at least capable of writing good songs.

Good Writing Remember I Can Capable

Philip Pullman and Jacqueline Wilson have both been writing for a long time. In 30 years, will writers of that quality have been able to serve the same sort of apprenticeship? Not unless they can make enough money now to live on.

Live Time Money Quality Writing Now

I've always had an ear for melodies, and they veer pop. My lyrics are more country - what I love is the storytelling and the structure, how tight the rhymes can be. But pop melodies have always been intrinsically linked to my writing style.

Love Style Love Is Writing Country

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.

Writing Sometimes Group Strange Up

The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.

Writing Story Remember Down I Can

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

Francoise Sagan

Me Writing Finding Jazz Rhythm

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

People Me Writing Enjoy You Know

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

Love Writing Road Process Down Will

I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.

Lie Writing Acting Say Little Going

Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.

Walter Jon Williams

Writing World Within Limitations

I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.

Writing Think Short First Fiction

In some ways, in 'The Queen of the Night,' I'm writing about some of the experience that I had with 'Edinburgh' where I was entirely unable to speak about what had happened to me as a child, but I could read from the novel.

Experience Queen Child Me Writing

The desk thing is a problem for me. The ideal one would be vast and perfectly clear. Yet the bane of the biographical existence is paper; if you're 'an artist under oath' you're writing from a mountain of documentation.

Mountain Me Writing Problem You

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

Writing Jazz Like Taught Learned

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

Writing Think Stop Years Out Just

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

Time Writing Think You Timing Jazz

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

School Sister Writing Class Top Lit

I love writing for and about women. In my whole career I have.

Love Women Writing Career Whole

I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.

Ellen Gilchrist

School Writing Thought Never Write

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.

Life People Writing World Lonely

I once read Updike after writing a first draft, and I wanted to put my own book on the fire. I've since learned to read utter crap while I'm writing: pulp is the thing.

Fire Writing Book My Own First Own

I liked writing with my friends and making our own little stories. Making a movie like 'Spider-Man' never even crossed my mind.

Mind Writing Friends Never Own Even

Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a poetry writing unit to violins for a school recital to microscope slides for a biology class.

School Poetry Writing America Class

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