Andy Grammer Quotes

I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's good. If it doesn't, that's too bad.

I'm not a writer just to be a writer. I want to say something that really needs expressing.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

In a way, there's nothing new under the sun, so anything you write about has been written about by other people. All you can do is bring yourself to it, bring as much honesty as you can to it.

You need to write about something that you really know about or you deeply connect with. Don't fake it.

I have never been able to separate - nor have I wanted to - my personal love and desire for truth, passion, and understanding from my lyrics.

Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think.

You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you write it with honesty and gusto, and do not try to make somebody believe that you are smarter than you are. What's the use? You can never be smarter than you are.

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought.

It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it style. What you're trying to do is be faithful to your perceptions and transmit them as faithfully as you can. I say these sentences until they sound right. There's no objective reason why they're right. They just sound right to me.

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.

I want that every piece of art be honest, never mind what it is about.

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

You have to write the story that's at the front of your head. There is no point in trying to write for the market; it won't ring true.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

I love to write.