“I try to decipher if my life lives through my words or if my words become my life.” — Shannon Lynette 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
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
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
I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. Because as long as the Lord gives me… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it;… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
Write from the soul, not from some notion what you think the marketplace wants. The market is fickle; the soul is eternal. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of people who sit around all day thinking about killing people...mystery writers and serial killers. I'm the kind… — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
When you are going through something that heavy, for me anyway, I couldn't imagine writing about anything else. I always tend to… — Nicole Atkins Copy Share Image
Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I've been writing and collecting songs on the ukulele for at least 10 years, so it was time to clear them out… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The portal structure is simply a technique: it is neither necessary nor unnecessary, except as the writer and the story make it… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
I took many notes, more than usual before I sat down and wrote Act One, Scene One. I had perhaps eighty pages… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
When I write, I never think of segments as chapters; I think of them as scenes. I always visualize them in my… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“Nothing expresses Kafka’s innermost sense of self more profoundly than his lapidary definition of “writing as a form of prayer”: he was… — Ernst Pawel Copy Share Image
