The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The core of me is country. It's what I love. It's what I write. Even when I sing pop stuff, I'm still… — Ashley Monroe Copy Share Image
It's disheartening to write goals from year to year, looking back only to see you are in the same place. You can… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays;… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
I discover what I mean as I write. That can be both terrifically exciting and very dangerous, because when you look at… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
It was the winter of war, in 1939. It felt completely pointless to try to create pictures... I suddenly felt an urge… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
I don't have an answer for why Hollywood still casts non-ethnic people for ethnic roles. It's something that has to change. Sometimes… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
Childfree women are actually great assets to the planet. Our carbon footprint is smaller than a mom's! And we have enough money… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely… — Kit Reed Copy Share Image
I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down… — Tamara Mellon Copy Share Image
Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel… — Curtis Mayfield Copy Share Image
All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
Generally, I like to write in the morning before all the dust of dreams has blown away. Beforehand, I read two papers,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
I lost my brother in a car wreck when I was 14 years old. When I decided I wanted to be a… — Blake Shelton Copy Share Image
A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying… — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
The only real reason to write professionally is that you love it enough. — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I… — Lee Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with… — Gail Simmons Copy Share Image
I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good enough. So my response… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
