“I very much was inspired by Bill Bryson. He does cover science, but more often, it's a mixture of science and travel, and whatever he happens to be writing about - Shakespeare, Australia, the United Kingdom, or when he covers science in 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything' - he has an incredible ability to be both entertaining and enlightening.” WritingDoeHappensAbilityUnitedBillsInspiredIncrediblesKingdomsAustraliaEntertainingMixturesEnlighteningUnited Kingdom Author:Mary Roach
“I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.” ThinkingWritingTryingCharacterAbilityVacationSensibilityAnother Time Author:Ron Rash
“The core of character lies in each individual story person's ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly that something is important.” FeelsWritingPersonsImportantCharacterStoriesCareLyingIndividualAbilityCore Book:Creating Characters: How to Build Story People Source: Creating Characters: How to Build Story People
“Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” IfsWritingAbilityLosingTasksSellingEnthusiasmPersistentLifelong Author:Winston Churchill
“My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.” PeopleWritingWholeSongGoalCan DoAbilityKnowingRecordsInspireRelateJust OneSongwriters Author:Kate Voegele
“I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.” WritingChildrenPersonsHas BeensCharacterStoriesBodyAbilityJudgmentMarkHearingSmellActressesLouisiana Author:Rebecca Wells
“Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.” PeopleIfsWritingMayLightFeltCan DoAbilityEffortQualitySuccessfulParticularBottomBeing SuccessfulRecallsTemperature Author:Maxwell Perkins
“There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.” ThinkingWritingHumansAbilityCreativityWonderfulSpecialSingingAreasSomething SpecialWriting Music Author:Kim Gordon
“Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and lyrical without being self- conscious: it is a relief to encounter writing as quietly stylish as this. I was not totally convinced by Lurie's musical abilities, with regard to his proposed opera, but that is my sole complaint.” WritingSelfStoriesAbilityConsciousConcernedRegardMalesMusicalConvincedFleshEncountersProseReliefSubtleOperaSoleComplaintsDisgraceSelf ConsciousLyricalChasteStylishMusical AbilityCoetzee Author:Paul Bailey
“When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.” WritingPlayBigsStuffSoundAbilityRocksGuitarStudiosHeavyPostsLoudAggressivePunk Author:Tom DeLonge