Hard Quote by Andrew Ripp

I think sometimes when I sit down to write a song, it doesn't come out naturally, but when you are writing an email to…

— Jens Lekman

There was a time when I was in the South, singing, and someone came to me before the show and said, 'There's been a…

— Johnny Mathis

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

— Julie Andrews

So what comes naturally to me is writing lyrics and writing songs and telling stories.

— Nina Nesbitt

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

— Brian Selznick

Academically I was never that great and I was not really into school. I don't know, I just really had a problem focusing but…

— Ari Lennox

In writing you work toward a result you won't see for years, and can't be sure you'll ever see. It takes stamina and self-mastery…

— Tobias Wolff

Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

— John Irving

I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just…

— Zoe Foster Blake

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

— Dani Shapiro

I don't write because I think I have anything particularly interesting to say. I write because I love writing more than any other work…

— Stefan Merrill Block