Serj Tankian Quotes

Sometimes a novelist can get closer to the truth than the historian can.

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.

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've always written about other artists, or I write my thoughts down, but I've never written a story.

You do your best to tell your own story, in the most specific way, and then you hope that that travels well, when it's done with heart and honesty.

I wouldn't be making films if I just wanted to express some specific ideas; then I would be writing essays or something.

I still tell a lot of jokes and do a lot of funny comics, but the stuff I like best is the personal stuff. I will still occasionally talk about my job and retail, but it evolved.

I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.

It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.

All my songs are things that have happened to me.

It puzzles me when writers say they can't read fiction when they're writing fiction because they don't want to be influenced. I'm totally open to useful influence. I'm praying for it.

I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I found philosophy and how I'd understand the world.

Denver's commitment to giving contemporary storytellers the stage is crucial to the American theater. That's something embraced by 'Smash.' We should be telling our own stories.

You can only write your own vision.

I always knew that if I was ever going to perform something that I wrote in front of an audience, I was going to do the thing I most like to experience as an audience member, which is to be tricked.

I live vicariously through my songs.

Writers can express ideas and emotions that are important to them but have no other means of expression. Some of these ideas may be fantastic, and some of the emotions may be given clearer voice in fantastic fiction.

In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.

I'm always thinking about stories and ideas, and I have a few I'd like to actively pursue, but as much as I love them, I love the process of creation, and I want to go on and create things for myself, and create new things.

I absolutely wasn't going to write a book if it was just going to be about punk.

Lyrics is commissioned work, it is my profession. But poetry is my statement to life.

I have been privileged to write across multiple facets of my life: to write romance novels, to write memoir, to write about leadership, and to write tax and social policy articles. The act of writing is integral to who I am. I'm a writer, a politician, a tax attorney, a civic leader, and an entrepreneur. I am proud of what I've accomplished.