Rosa Luxemburg Quotes

It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.

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.

There's always an element of truth to what I write because that's why I write.

If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.

To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

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

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me.

I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.

The most real dialogue for me is when I am alone, writing.

I do always write from a personal place.

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

Look, then, into thine heart, and write!

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

And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well -- but 'tis not true!

I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.