Scott Turow Quotes

I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from, so don't edit yourself line by line. Don't get in your own way. Whatever is truly there at the core, that is your voice.

I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need to be in control of it. I just sort of let it happen, and then I know when it's done. I know when it's finished.

As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.

I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something and I tend to feel like it's leading me and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.

I write just knowing that I enjoy writing. But if I have to write, it seems like nothing comes. But when I go there for my own pleasure, the Lord might just give me loads of stuff all at once.

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

The 'Station to Station' film has been fascinating to create. It feels as though it made itself in a way, and after awhile, the film told us what it needed and began to sculpt itself.

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.

I believe sometimes we aren't always in charge of everything that we do creatively. We submit to things as we're going on our own journey.

All good writing comes out of aloneness.

If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.

Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.

For me, working on original material is very important.

I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It's come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it's kind of out of my hands now.

My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others.

People have talents that are different. Where does the creative flow come from - inside us or from a higher power? I don't ask any questions. I just write it down.

A lot of my music is inspired by personal situations in my life.

I'm just going to keep trying to write music for me because that's what got me here.