Well, everything surprises me about the writing process…

“This has been one of my biggest surprises in writing this book: the distinction be\etween introverts and extraverts did not come up in any…

— Deborah Tannen

I think sometimes when I sit down to write a song, it doesn't come out naturally, but when you are writing an email to…

— Jens Lekman

Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good songs to…

— Andrew Ripp

So what comes naturally to me is writing lyrics and writing songs and telling stories.

— Nina Nesbitt

I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is…

— Brian Selznick

It's not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives. What makes the difference is our attitude towards what happens. The…

— Ken Robinson

Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have…

— Eric Drooker

Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.

— Jim Rohn

I was a magazine illustrator for many years before I became an actor, and I used to think, 'Oh, God, all those wasted years!'…

— Michael Emerson

It's pretty damning. That's Hillary Clinton juxtaposed against the FBI Director Comey yesterday, clearly illustrating she lied.

— Rush Limbaugh

However, to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consiously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards…

— Charles Duhigg

The opportunity should not be lost, which is afforded by the occasion, for illustrating and enforcing the thought that the universe, its creation, its…

— Andrew S. Draper

Bloggers and other flavors of lone wolf are publishing heart-wrenching photo-essays from the front line of the recovery effort. Newspapers and TV networks? They're…

— Tim Bray

One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force people into…

— Dean Spade

There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.

— Joshua Oppenheimer