I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing. — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part. — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad. — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human.… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
In fact, when I finally realized I was really going to write, when I was about thirty-four, I was working on my… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
“Literature might be called the art of story, and story might in turn be called a universal language, for every culture we… — Andrea A. Lunsford Copy Share Image
Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
I wasn't in a position that some other memoirists are, dealing with families who fed them meth, or kidnapped them, or did… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the wailing of a broken heart―the etched sorrows of despairing souls. These artful words are an exclamation in rare colors… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don't even have a secretary. And contrary to… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to conceive, however, that for many reasons a man writes much better than he lives. For without entering… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't think my forte will be political sketches, but I'd like to fine-tune that where maybe someday I could write one. — Heidi Gardner Copy Share Image
For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't think I was ever designed to be a ubiquitous worldwide star. I'm a singer-songwriter writing quite personal songs. You're not… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
I come from theater, so I'm used to the hierarchy of an actor is just on the ladder, and above that is… — Cress Williams Copy Share Image
You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again.… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I tend to describe recurring themes as being part of a writer's DNA - something so deeply embedded in us that even… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. Today, television tells most of the stories… — George Gerbner Copy Share Image
I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Poets aren't poets because of the way they write, they are poets because of the way they see the world.” — Brandon Gene Petit Copy Share Image
By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
My intention was never to write a "trans novel" - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
I didn't write superheroes for the first 10 years of my comic career. I was just doing fan fiction. I wasn't thinking… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
“In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has… — Ivan Klima Copy Share Image
In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime. — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
When I look at what a writer owes to the reader, it's critical to know that everything you're writing about is not… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
