Rodney Crowell Quotes

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

I write too much to ever keep everything just for myself.

Writing's another expression of art, really, that I'm just kind of discovering as I go.

I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins.

I'm happy to be a woman but much of it was learned over the course of life. Really thudded into me. You learn it. It's a kind of mastery and artistry. The deeper person underneath the scent of Diptyque Philosykos or whatever is much less gendered. Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I'm as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.

For the years I spent working on it, 'Constellation' was the only novel I knew how to write, so maybe I still abided by the maxim? Regardless, I prefer the maxim: Write what you want to know, rather than what you already know.

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

The first audience that you have when writing a book is you.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

I don't think I found my voice until I reached New York. I suppose it's possible I would have had some kind of different literary career if I had not discovered New York.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.