I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert EinsteinI ain’t never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.
Dolly PartonIt is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia WoolfSiren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.
Terry PratchettThe difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar WildeNow we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.
Barack ObamaI didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.
Haruki MurakamiWWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.
Dwayne JohnsonEven those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Blaise PascalEverybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.
Kevin HartWhether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.
Matthew McConaugheyThe way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
Jackie RobinsonOver the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.
Kamala HarrisElectric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Charles DickensYet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Virginia WoolfI don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.
David BowieI’m different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I’ve built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image… My image is real… I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.
Vivienne WestwoodI write for myself things that I’ve gone through.
Dolly PartonDeliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Alice WalkerOne thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they’re just infested with lots of stuff.
Terry PratchettI’ve definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it’s a little more raw.
Bruno MarsAnd the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
J. K. RowlingPretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.
Billie EilishTo do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.
Conor McGregorTrue praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
John SteinbeckI’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.
Joel OsteenMy mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.
Bruno MarsThis is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
Virginia WoolfPilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
Neil ArmstrongIn order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.
Dalai LamaMy mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.
Dwayne JohnsonTo not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.
Robert GreeneNo man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Theodore RooseveltI was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.
Alice WalkerOf course, there are those critics – New York critics as a rule – who say, ‚Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it’s good but then she’s a natural writer.‘ Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.
Maya AngelouAnything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.
Taylor SwiftBasketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.
LeBron JamesIf it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
Henry KissingerIf I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.
Maya AngelouI think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
Ray BradburyI’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.
Frank OceanStrong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.
Wayne DyerI think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.
David BowieEveryone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Napoleon HillI wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.
Kurt CobainGood writing is like a windowpane.
George OrwellWhat I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.
David BowieIt is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
Abraham LincolnPeople often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!
Richard P. FeynmanI wrote ‚Channel Orange‘ in two weeks. The end product wasn’t always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.
Frank OceanMy dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
Jackie ChanI love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.
RihannaAt the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.
Lady GagaThe story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Margaret AtwoodAlmost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
Virginia WoolfAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
AristotleThere is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
Emily DickinsonI write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
Jack LondonWho I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.
Beyonce Knowles