Jackie Evancho Quotes

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think there are enough of them in songs anymore.

I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

I took a lot of writing courses.

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.

I began writing fiction when I started running out of material in my own life.

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

I try not to think too much about where my voice comes from. I'm channeling characters and emotion to come up with beautiful words that tell a story.

I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

In college, I wrote maybe three short stories.

So what comes naturally to me is writing lyrics and writing songs and telling stories.

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking about how to do it. And then you do it. And much later, you think, 'Oh, yes. That's an interesting question.'

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

I think that, for physicians who want to become writers, they have the material, the smarts, they have the logic, they know the stories; it's just a matter of being able to connect with their emotional sides - that's the key to writing good fiction.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.