Charles Kelley Quotes

I love writing with other artists, I really do. Because you can try to guess what they would want to say and how they would sing it.

Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum

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• I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

  

  Carl Honore
  • World
  • Writing
  • Journalism

• I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Yourself

• We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Feel

• Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Yourself

• My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Women

• I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Man

• I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Writing
  • Interest
  • Directing

• If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.

  

  Manika
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Songwriting

• Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Change

• When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Writing
  • Weird

• I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

  

  Adam Clymer
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • Doing

• After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Children

• I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Writing
  • Myself

• Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • Writing
  • Want
  • You

• This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Writing
  • Picture
  • Distracted

• The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.

  

  Halsey
  • Writing
  • Years
  • First

• Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Interesting

• With 'Pariah,' at the time, I had just come out. I had a coming out experience, and I was writing about it, transposing my experience as an adult: What would it have been like if I had been a teenager in Brooklyn? The funny thing was people thought I was from Brooklyn. I had to be like, 'No, I'm from Nashville.'

  

  Dee Rees
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• We really think highly of the executives at SBC. And Microsoft is one of the great companies of the 21st century. It is in all of our best interests to work together. In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself; you have to form alliances.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Work
  • Great
  • Together

• Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Example
  • Leave
  • Medical

• There are no small churches, just small people.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole
  • People
  • Small

• America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power.

  

  Anohni
  • Real
  • Power
  • America

• I love writing with other artists, I really do. Because you can try to guess what they would want to say and how they would sing it.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • Writing