I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.
Ellie Goulding
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.
Ernest Hemingway
My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.
Dolly Parton
I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.
Maya Angelou
I have an amazing team; I have amazing producers; I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.
Ellen DeGeneres
No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.
J. K. Rowling
When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.
Anthony Bourdain
I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.
Sylvester Stallone
Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.
Maya Angelou
As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
Ed Sheeran
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
Ernest Hemingway
My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
Taylor Swift
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
Ben Stiller
I don't see much comedy in the Bible, where people are writing about funny people. It's not there.
Bill Cosby
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.
Alan Rickman
I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.
Kanye West
Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.
Luke Bryan
Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.
Jason Statham
I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
Christina Aguilera
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Winston Churchill
Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.
Ellie Goulding
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar Wilde
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Mark Twain
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Ernest Hemingway