Writing Quotes

I used to be a good story writer. I could make up a story with like, eight people in it and tell you where they all lived, what color their houses are.

Nobody has to give me permission to write.

I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

Most of my songs are written about movies or TV shows – they’re not about me.

I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.

The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion – and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way.

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ‘reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.’