Suzanne Vega Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

  Suzanne Vega

  Writing, Way, Direct

• Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that theres a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.

  Suzanne Vega

  Writing, Voice, Details

  "Solo: Women Singer-songwriters in Their Own Words". Book by Marc Woodworth, 1998.

• Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.

  Suzanne Vega

  Writing, Issues, People

• I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.

  Suzanne Vega

  Writing, Form, Feels

  Suzanne Vega (1999). “The passionate eye: the collected writing of Suzanne Vega”, Avon Books

• But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.

  Suzanne Vega

  Song, Writing, Order

• It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

  Suzanne Vega

  Song, Writing, Intimacy

• A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. That's why I write the way I do.

  Suzanne Vega

  Song, Smart, Writing

• A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

  Suzanne Vega

  Writing, Civilized

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin