Zooey Deschanel Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Writing, Sitting Down, Down And

• I love to play music, and this is fun, and let's record this stuff in a way that we both like. That was exciting enough, so we just recorded it. There was no business in it until the very last minute, really. It was really as much of an extension of me writing the songs in my bedroom as it could possibly be.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Song, Fun, Writing

  "Zooey Deschanel thrilled to be in She & Him". Interview with Marc Hirsh, www.today.com. March 18, 2008.

• Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Writing, School, Unique

  "Zooey Deschanel, 'New Girl' creator discuss the kiss, and the lack of a master plan for the show" by Jeff Jensen, ew.com. February 5, 2013.

• I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times longer.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Writing, Voice, Sometimes

  "She & Him". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 15, 2010.

• It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music - my taste in chord progressions and melodies.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Song, Mean, Writing

  "Zooey Deschanel Can Play the Ukulele". Interview with Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. July 17, 2009.

• Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something is coming from nothing.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Writing, Creative, Process

  "She & Him". Interview with Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. April 21, 2008.

• I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Writing, Thinking, Goes On

  "Zooey Deschanel Covers ‘Allure’ February 2012 With Typical Twee-ness" By Jessica Misener, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2012.

• Most of my music theory knowledge is based on piano. But I write on guitar a lot, too. I'm not a great guitar player by any means. I'm not a great instrumentalist. I play piano on stage. I don't play guitar on stage, but I use it to write quite a lot.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Writing, Mean, Player

  "Zooey Deschanel Can Play the Ukulele". Interview with Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. July 17, 2009.

• I've always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Home, Writing, Creative

  "Zooey Deschanel Interview NEW GIRL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2011.

• I was writing tons of music in my spare time. I might be on location somewhere, and I'd go home and I'd have my guitar and my little keyboard or something and write music. Or if I was at home, on my piano. I've always been a late bloomer with a lot of things, just in general, so I think this was something that needed to come to fruition in this particular way.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Home, Writing, Thinking

  "Zooey Deschanel thrilled to be in She & Him". Interview with Marc Hirsh, www.today.com. Marc 18, 2008.

• I've been writing music since I was about eight. I would write sporadically. I wrote a lot of music in high school. I guess the oldest song on the record ("I Thought I Saw Your Face") is about eight years old. It's the old "I had my whole life to write my first album and six months to write the second one." I did, to some degree, but actually, a lot of the songs that ended up on the record, I wrote really recently. So it varies.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Song, Writing, School

  "Zooey Deschanel thrilled to be in She & Him". Interview with Marc Hirsh, www.today.com. March 18, 2008.

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