I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs. — Patrick Carney Copy Share Image
Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
I always feel a responsibility to the people I write about. I feel obligated to portray them in the way they feel… — Heather Graham Pozzessere Copy Share Image
I'm currently working on a romantic comedy between me and Philip Seymour Hoffman. So my next step is to write something so… — Haley Webb Copy Share Image
When I write songs, when I sing songs, I don't have anybody in mind. I'm just trying to express what I think… — El DeBarge Copy Share Image
Growing up, all I did was write about the fact that I'm from where I'm from. I was a big champion of… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I used to write my books at night when I was a freelancer with no children. I used to really work in… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, I was a workaholic clocking more than 80 hours per week. That changed after I began to write.… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I read all of the stories that people write about me. The ones that are really interesting are the ones where they… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Some things that I write, you'll see a page with cartoon pictures or a drawing of a car - like a Ford… — Andrae Crouch Copy Share Image
My inspiration comes from God, so I always have to be open, kind of like being an antenna. I like to write… — Brenda Russell Copy Share Image
I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that… — Neve McIntosh Copy Share Image
Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else. — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn… — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself. — Matthew Nable Copy Share Image
When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
One thing I learned is how much easier it is to write about clothes than it is to make them. — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
Each night before I go to bed, I take out a small card and write a list of the things I need… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is you… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
“The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it. — James Altucher Copy Share Image
I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
Anytime someone uses one of my songs for anything - a ceremony or a sacred moment - that, to me, is a… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
