Edward Rutherfurd Quotes

Music is an important part of my writing process.

The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing. It's just a pretty cool thing.

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

I saw the film 'Amadeus' from when I was five, which made me want to take piano lessons.

I find inspiration in many places. Sometimes music gives me the kernel of a story. Sometimes it's dissatisfaction with the plot of a movie or a book that gets me thinking. Sometimes it's love of a movie or book.

I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit down to write.

I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.

Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now.

I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising.

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

I don't need music to write, but sometimes I put music on. I don't need special clothes or even my own equipment.

Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!

It'll help you be imaginative if you listen to classical music. It helps you understand dynamics and how important they are to create an environment.

I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase... So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.

Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.