The reason we fall in love with certain music and writing is we connect with it on a very personal level. — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private. — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It did not prepare me for writing or 'Power of Attorney.' However, what it did is that it forced me out of… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
I know that sounds cliché, but mostly from my own experiences and things I see around me. We're all human beings, and… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
Being a better songwriter, that's top of the list because I think that is a very intimidating, difficult task. I really admire… — Morgan James Copy Share Image
“All For a Day" All day I have written words: My subject has been that. Words. And I am wrong. And the… — Robert Sward Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is that, well, here's what I think about songwriters and songs. Sometimes people sit down and say, "I gotta… — Andy Kim Copy Share Image
Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I knew that I was a good writer in high school and won awards, and I was the editor of my school… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Interestingly, if you write preparation out of history, leadership and preparation, the building of confidence among people who are exploited, you've actually… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
All writers write about themselves, just as the old storytellers chose to tell stories that spoke to and about themselves. They call… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“People say to me they don't have time to write and I just look at them like they're crazy. Like I have… — D.A. Nelson Copy Share Image
Women writers lift themselves up from the depths; as they rise, each brings with her what she is able to carry. — Lucy Poate Stebbins Copy Share Image
An idyllic period of my existence was when I had a den attached to my home... a writing den, and no one… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is an invisible aspect of being a writer; none of it is about you. It's about your work, and that's what… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done,… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good… — Andrew Ripp Copy Share Image
Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
Ask yourself, what makes my book so different? So interesting? Don’t write to be a best seller. Write for and from your… — Leon Nacson Copy Share Image
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere… — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
“She was one of those writers, far from rare in the world of letters, who suppose that push and pull are an… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A body of work, therefore, reveals the intellectual and emotional progress of the writer, and is a map of his soul. It's… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life. — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially… — Alan Zweibel Copy Share Image
I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about… — Oscar Nunez Copy Share Image
The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your… — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
