Quotes About Artistry

Reading is to an author as listening to music is to a composer. There's music in the words.

Creativity is its own reward. A writer must relish those unfathomable moments when plot-lines and characters fall into place. It's the closest thing to magic we know.

A novel is the final common pathway of a writer's experiences, fears, wishes, thoughts, feelings & fantasies. All is distilled in a novel.

A writer's work is never done, the meter is never off.

Creativity isn't defined by word count, or the number of books one has published. A writer makes a commitment to stretch as far as possible, reaching for the music of words.

There are twenty-six letters in the alphabet. A writer's task is to arrange them into sentences telling a unique story with guts, heart & soul.

And then we were swept up, just like the La Scala performers say, playing con smania, with passion.

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

Write it down in your own handwriting.

We have to play it longer because there are no numbers or letters.

Did you play? It sounded very good.

It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.

If you covered a broom handle with oil and shoved it up my arse, then put me on a trampoline, in a lift, I could write a better song on the walls.

As an actor myself, the opportunity to sing and dance and be dramatic and be funny - it's really irresistible to actors. You get to show all sides of your talent.

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.

Just because you're a belter doesn't make you funny; it just means that's how your pipes are set up.

15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.

It's funny, because I don't think of my films as "slow-burn." I don't even know if I was familiar with the phrase until people started labeling me with it.

Being a musician is a given for me-I didn't have much choice in the matter.

If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.

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I'm much more than a writer – I'm someone who puts different words together in an interesting way.

Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.