“All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.” WritingEndsStoriesInterestSocial Issues Author:Isabel Allende
“I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.” ThinkingWritingArtFactsArtistSongInterestNaturalListeningGrewKingsGrew UpInspiredGuitarSongwritingWriting SongsPlaying Guitar Author:Kate Voegele
“My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers.” WritingCharacterWantedGirlPassionSoundInterestRichAirSmartMy FriendsDoctorsLawyerFilmmakerGossipBiggest FearHeiressGossip Girl Author:Cecily von Ziegesar
“It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.” ThinkingWritingBelieveWellsHardMotherNightGamesInterestImaginationCareersCollegeSeriousPursuitMy SisterEvery NightMake BelievePlaying Make Believe Author:Sara Zarr
“Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of skills and interests. They should paint, write, perform, visit art galleries and enjoy world-class concerts. Only then will they form a vibrant, rounded, interesting community.” WorldShouldWritingArtWholeFormEnjoyInterestCommunityInterestingQualityClassSkillsShould HavePaintObjectivesRangeConcertsSoleEarningGalleryWorld ClassArt GalleriesEarning Money Author:Goh Chok Tong
“Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.” WritingInterestInterruptions Author:Isaac Asimov
“The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.” WritingAgeSchoolYoungEnjoyInterestSkillsJournalismYoung AgeWriting Skills Author:William Jackson
“I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.” WritingFeelingsFormInterestCompanyClothesCalmMealsNeglectStable Author:Bertolt Brecht
“Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.” FeelsWritingWellsInterestMankindDrinkSickBlessDrunkennessLiver Author:Fernando Pessoa
“I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words down for a matter of memory. They are more made to be spoken than to be read.” IfsWritingMadeMatterInterestMemoriesPrintPrintedPrinted Word Author:John Steinbeck
“Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it.” WritingInterestStrikesEach DaySparks Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness - you can't have just a normal childhood - has gone way up.” PeopleWayWritingReadingInterestGoneHappenedChildhoodNormalUniversalMemoirOutrageousThresholdWeirdness Author:Sara Nelson
“I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren individualism, of considerable interest to me, but I do not know why I should presume it will be so to you. Egotism is not tiresome, or it ought not to be, if one is sincere about oneself; but it is so hard to be sincere. Well, never mind, I mean to be, and you know me well enough to see through me when I am humbugging.” IfsKnowsShouldWritingMindWellsMeanHardEnoughFactsInterestMy OwnPoorOpinionAdventureTheoryOughtOneselfSincereSentimentsIndividualismKnow MeEgotismBarrenTiresome Book:The Nemesis of Faith Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWritingInterestOughtMy FriendsConcernPrintedMe Alone Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.” WritingTryingYearsFirstsLooksMeanLongI CanRememberInterestLinesProduceFavorsMeritFifteenFifteen Years Author:Kingsley Amis