It's cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I… — Chester Bennington Copy Share Image
While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had to do some writing… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I was into writing and directing. I was a bit of a reluctant actor. I would always ask friends to shoot or… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The media attention doesn't faze me. I'm always writing and performing somewhere, so I never feel like I've been totally out of… — David Essex Copy Share Image
I was writing before I met Rick and actually I created the band before Rick Finch. Basically, the first album, I wrote.… — Harry Wayne Casey Copy Share Image
We haven't been on the same page in years. It is what it is. Sometimes that match burns out. So, no, I… — GZA Copy Share Image
I hate the word surrogate, because what does that mean? Like when people talk about I'm my father's confident, at one point,… — Ivanka Trump Copy Share Image
Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling… — Ann Reed Copy Share Image
The basic thing is to be humble, and pretend you're a bartender in the tavern of life. Don't get too comfortable and… — James McBride Copy Share Image
I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the… — George Stephen Copy Share Image
Jiyong hyung's mind can go wild and think a lot of things. This was my first time writing my own lyrics so… — Seungri Copy Share Image
I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a… — Imogen Heap Copy Share Image
“Life might be stranger than fiction, but fiction allows many writers to more accurately portray life to their readers.” — Jaime Buckley Copy Share Image
Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
I would say one thing writing this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] did for me was underscore the fact that this issue… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.” — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who talk about a formula for being able to start a fan base. But for me,… — Corey Smith Copy Share Image
It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most at this time. There is, of… — Hemingway Ernest Copy Share Image
Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Rap - it's a childhood passion. Writing rhymes, it's something that I was doing before rap records even existed. And I will… — Gza Copy Share Image
“To read is to empower, To empower is to write, To write is to influence, To influence is to change, To change… — Jane Evershed Copy Share Image
I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
All of the most important lessons about writing I learned from my father. He never set out to teach me anything, it… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor… — Horace Copy Share Image
Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
I've never invested myself properly in trying to write stories. When I write lyrics, mostly I write each sentence separately on an… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no… — Matthew Nable Copy Share Image
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I can't personally drink or fight too much nowadays because I have to be perky in the morning in order to write. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image