I always get nervous before a gig, so I look over my…

There's variables at every single gig. I look forward to those every night. We have a lot of things that happen in our show,…

— Tyler Joseph

“Another memorable performance of ‘Black Sabbath’ was in a town hall near Manchester. The manager was there to greet us in a suit and…

— Ozzy Osbourne

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug…

— George Strait

By the sheer act of writing, we are trying to place value on the stories that we're invested in.

— Lynn Nottage

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

— Anonymous

In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.

— Jamaica Kincaid

The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are…

— Sarah Gadon

When I'm writing, it's because I'm trying to figure something out for myself. If I don't believe in what I've written, then how can…

— Lauren Mayberry

Writing is a totally different brain than directing, at least for me. With writing, you're trying your best to foresee all the problems before…

— Craig Zobel

In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find connections with…

— Kiese Laymon

“The paradox of writing is that you’re trying to use words to express what words can’t express.”

— Stephen Fischer

I think if you are writing something that you are trying to design for someone else to like that is not necessarily you're demographic,…

— Bryan Fuller

“whatever I was writing, I was always trying to write my way back to you.”

— Lauren Oliver

The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and…

— Janet Frame

“He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.”

— Jack London