When the [US] president writes to Kim Jong Il, the son, the Dear Leader, he doesn't call him Dear Mr President, he… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
As an artist I write about the world I want to live in. And as a musician and someone who is in… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
It's just hard when you've spent so much time on something, writing and recording, laying the vocals, getting the hook right, getting… — Eminem Copy Share Image
On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A lot of writers don't know what it feels like to get on stage. They don't understand the weight that songs can… — Justin Tranter Copy Share Image
I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia.… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I think sometimes when I sit down to write a song, it doesn't come out naturally, but when you are writing an… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Language is not law; it is in fact a lot like music. Speech is jazz – first you learn the basic rules,… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
A hidden nerve is what every writer is ultimately about. It's what all writers wish to uncover when writing about themselves in… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
D.H. Lawrence, I think, defined the difference between writing an article and writing a novel very well. He said, in writing a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I can't say I was consciously thinking of the big changes in the music business when I was writing the lyrics, but… — Rivers Cuomo Copy Share Image
It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
I think that I had a very clear vision when I started writing cookbooks what I wanted it to be, and that… — Ina Garten Copy Share Image
I think some journalists and bloggers want their articles to be clever, and the way into that is by writing nasty things.… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
“But language is malleable, and it is not always on the side of truth. This is something every writer knows. Words make… — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
Lots of people were giving me flak when I made the deal to do the very last season of Scrubs for $350,000… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
“You think you have no ‘talent’? Write anyway. lots of people with ‘talent’ don’t actually act on it. As long as you… — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda.… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
Think about that: at a time when it was inconceivable to have a woman rabbi or a woman scholar of Christian theology… — Khaled Abou El Fadl Copy Share Image
To see your country being destroyed from afar - it's very hard to only watch and do nothing. My writing is the… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
I love that "furious and gorgeous barrage." That helps me see the relation between the introduction and the book's final section, where… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Aly and I went through just a long period of time where we just didn't feel creative musically. And, you know, we… — AJ Michalka Copy Share Image
I think all writing is political. All writing shows a preoccupation with something, whatever that thing might be, and by putting pen… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
With the first 'Toy Story,' we didn't know what the hell we were doing. We'd never made a movie before, so we… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
“Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people… — Brian A. McBride Copy Share Image
I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than… — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics… — Marcus Mumford Copy Share Image
My technicians are my most important tools. Once I establish a rapport with them, then they would understand me in my next… — Yash Chopra Copy Share Image
“I never knew why or how writing could be so important until I learned about the no-talking rule and found that writing… — Karol Jackowski Copy Share Image
Do you know how many great writers, musicians, artists, scientists, inventors, theologians, and statesmen have died poor? All of them! You can't… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image