“I try to decipher if my life lives through my words or if my words become my life.” — Shannon Lynette Copy Share Image
This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
“We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.” — Richard Marius Copy Share Image
I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing. — Naima Adedapo Copy Share Image
For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
“By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it… — Amy Lee Copy Share Image
I lived for two years in Odawara, a castle town an hour outside of Tokyo, near the sea. It's a beautiful place,… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners. — Natasha Bedingfield Copy Share Image
“A piece of writing is a trap,” he said cheerily, “and the best kind. A book, you see, is the only kind… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“For the writer, the risks are quite palpable and enduring. With each new character, each new setting, and each new plotline, something… — J.F. Juzwik Copy Share Image
Writing blog posts is totally freeing in a whole new way for me. I'm not writing it for any editor, and I'm… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
If you are stuck on a problem, go for a walk and think about something else for a little bit. Going for… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of… — Goh Chok Tong Copy Share Image
People often think that reporters write their own headlines. In fact, they almost never do. The people who do write headlines are… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid.… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image