Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.

When you write a song, you don't ask if it's good or not, or if it's gonna sell. When you write a song, you ask whether you've reached deep inside your heart and whether it's honest.

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

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

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

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.

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.

When you write, you don't really think of how honest you are being - it's only when you record that you understand how much of yourself you're giving.

A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that I play.

I say it's easier to write for other people than write for myself.

No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart...Delve into yourself for a deep answer

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really embellish the human spirit. You have to write about something you have a feel for.

I was already in a groove and decided to initially write down everything, as I would in an actual diary, and then go back and take out what I was too shy to reveal. But I wound up leaving more in than I imagined, and that was because I wanted to be transparent and real.

To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart!

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.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.

I try to be very honest in my writing. It's amazing, though, to think that people are responding to what we do, but it's okay if they're responding in a positive way too, because I think just creating anything at all to put out there is a gift.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.