Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have… — Scott Ian Copy Share Image
The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories. — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Someone has written, Love is a verb. It requires doing -not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does,… — David B. Haight Copy Share Image
I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I can't relate to the idea of suicide. I guess I'm just one of those people that is always optimistic and upbeat.… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
Before I wrote The Power of Now, I had a vision that I had already written the book and that it was… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We owe it to our children to be honest about the world and to provide them with material written specially for them. — Deborah Ellis Copy Share Image
Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name. — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen,… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand.… — John Irving Copy Share Image
A purpose statement is, in essence, a written-down reason for being. Jesus' mission helped him decide how to act, what to do,… — Laurie Beth Jones Copy Share Image
I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Some films do portray women in their 40s well, and some other films don't. Some films are written by women, so maybe… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
You can sing a very aggressive word in such a way that it's very funny. You can change words, completely turn them… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I've never not been pleased with one of my albums. I figure because it's spoken word, there will be people who relate… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
