I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But when I started playing in groups I did a silly thing and dropped it. It's great if you can write things down.
Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
Write a page a day. It will add up.
I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of something beautiful. . . The only sort of book I care to write about the war is the sort people will read after the war is over - a century after it is over.
One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power.
I earn my living by teaching film, mostly filmmaking but also teaching courses on current cinema. I'm interested in movies. I hope that's not all I'm interested in. In that sense, it's maybe a little misleading. I don't expect to make another movie about films, but I may continue to write about them.
E-mail also changed things in that you don't have to write a full document to discuss something. You can just send an e-mail to a list.
I want the plot to be as complicated as possible. Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it makes sense. I don't think out the plot ahead of time.
When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that, or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later.
I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that!
It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.
I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.
Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Cousin‟s Wife. Moses must have forgotten to write that one down
In Lebanon, it's never over for anyone. You cannot write off anyone or anything in this country.
You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.
Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them.
I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.
You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.