Robert Frost Quotes

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Like, even when I speak, I think I speak the same way I write. I kind of see it a certain way, and it leads me to write it exactly how I'm seeing it.

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Writing is essentially an internal process.

It is true that it is usually for their books that novelists reserve their most considered and ordered thoughts, but the fact is they arise inescapably from one consciousness: the same one that is occupied in all the other activities which make up a life.

I'm such a first-person writer.

Half your battle is won when the writing is good, and then you as an artist bring your personality into it.

I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it's sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It's a very laborious process, but I love doing it.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

My writing process is consecutive, like, 'mad scientist' crazy. It's not totally writing something that rhymes or even writing a rap necessarily. Sometimes it's just writing down stuff that I'm going through.

Sometimes I'll be writing something, and I say to myself, 'Okay, that's definitely DTB,' or, 'It's definitely Strapping.'

I read 'The Young Landlords' and felt almost a chemical change. What I realized while reading that book was that I could write in my voice, use my tongue, my language, my style, and write a story.

I've never used the word 'I' in a piece in my 18 years in journalism.

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 think as an author every character ends up low-key being some kind of self-insert.

I know what I do. I know what I put on film. I know what I try to do. I don't want to talk about what I've done.

When you write a show, every character is you to some extent.

For a while there, our writing got really edgy... I've always written about experiences, so when your life gets a bit crazy, you start to write songs that are a bit edgy.

I always find another version of myself in each of my films.

I've never been a confessional writer.

When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists.

I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing else. I was also finding within poetry I felt a lot more free to write about very different matters, to write about social issues or things that are going on around me.