I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt.
I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.
It's like they had a backlash the first 11 years. I think the reason why it always seems like there's a backlash is because when bands are unknown, they only get written about by fans.
I've been spending a lot of time poring over everything I've written, because I know people are going to hear it.
I like to go back over history and check out what people have written and whether I agree with it or not.
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered.
The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.
Characters written in 1990 would be acting like idiots if they were cast into the present. For example, the reader might wonder: Why isn't she texting? Where's her cellphone? Can't she have a simple paternity test? For God's sake, look on the Internet and check him out!
Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't love you anymore, they hate those poems. They wish those poems would go away.
I wrote 'Don't Look Back' in November 2011, and when I wrote the novel, it wasn't contracted, so there was a freedom in that - no expectations or anything like that. It was also my first contemporary novel I'd written and sold, which was to Disney/Hyperion in January of 2012.
When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.
Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.
I had written for Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman in the past. Jimmy had a different voice, and different priorities. He couldn't be the bad guy in the joke; he couldn't upset people, really.
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place.
It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.
I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.
Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.
Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.
Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.
The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.
I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do.
My 'Rot & Ruin' series is a post-apocalyptic adventure for teens. My 'Joe Ledger' novels are science-based action thrillers for adults. My 'Dead of Night' stories are zombie tales for adults; my 'Pine Deep Trilogy' is classic horror for adults, and I've written nonfiction books on topics ranging from martial arts to folklore.
During the 1970s and 1980s Gibson did use my likeness, but we never signed anything. This new Signature model is the first time we struck a formal written deal for a guitar with my name on it.
I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel.
