Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult. Joe Elliott difficulteasygood Change image and share on social
Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting. Christine Lavin boundarycrucialdown Change image and share on social
Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors. Ken Hill authorbrainhope Change image and share on social
Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically. Brendon Urie catcheasyexcite share on social
Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump. Etgar Keret jumpkindoppose Change image and share on social
Writing a story is pretty all-consuming for me - it feels a lot like method acting, and for the eight or twelve or fifteen months that I'm working on a story, I'm constantly thinking about how my narrator would react to whatever tangled situation I'm in. Molly Antopol actconstantlyconsume share on social
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life. Eudora Welty discovereffectexperience Change image and share on social
Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time! Emily Giffin characterlongteen Change image and share on social
Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies. Laura Wade flyfunlanguage Change image and share on social
Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end. David Labrava beginbiteend share on social
