“Bro, we're living in the Kali Yuga, a Dark Age of petite bourgeoisie ideology, a petite bourgeoisie ideology whose resources and ruses… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I can't tell you about acting. You can develop all the skills, voice, gesture, movement, you can develop by exercise and practice… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
The fear factor was my greatest challenge with The Whispering Town. How could I portray danger without really frightening the youngest readers… — Jennifer Elvgren Copy Share Image
“A smile fought its way through her expression of pain for a moment, and she said, “Yeah, it really kind of was,… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it,… — Marguerite Moreau Copy Share Image
I was interested in [Hunter S. Thompson novels]. The rebel in me fell in love with it, and the artist in me… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no obligation for the author of a film to believe in, or to sympathise with, the moral behaviour of his… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“Kafka’s The Castle came to mind, a book I had not read but that fell into that category of literature that culture… — Patrick McGuinness Copy Share Image
To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spawn. I wasn't… — Todd McFarlane Copy Share Image
Honesty is a principle, and we have our moral agency to determine how we will apply this principle. We have the agency… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“History gives us the facts, sort of, but from literary works we can learn what the past smelled like, sounded like, and… — Scott Herring Copy Share Image
“But once again, he would learn, Marvel’s fate lay in the hands of people who knew nothing about comic books. Out in… — Sean Howe Copy Share Image
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I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
A missionary who is inspired by the Spirit of the Lord must be led by that Spirit to choose the proper approach… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“A faulty understanding of science, along with rigorism and spiritual flattening in religion, termed scientism or biblicism, respectively, have taken hold of… — Florian Dreveskracht Copy Share Image
“I listened intently. He chose to skim past the parts that would put his ridiculous worries to rest, and I chose to… — Jodi Ellen Malpas Copy Share Image
Shane Salerno and I adapted my book Savages together, and I learned a lot about adaptation. I think it's an extremely difficult… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of wishes that we try to manifest. One, for the emotional stability that gives us the sense of… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
There is something a little vulgar about writing a novel that is too close to the present, too concerned with current events,… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse in my book than going home with energy left over. I like to go home knowing I've put a… — Fabian Delph Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like 'Avenue Q' or even 'Book of Mormon' might not have happened without 'Urinetown.' 'Urinetown' sort of paved the… — Spencer Kayden Copy Share Image
Gerald's Game' had such an impact on me when I read the book in college that I think I've actually, consciously or… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up." ~Happy… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
I think if I tried very hard, I could do a novel or a play, a poem. I could possibly paint a… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
“Is this a book club? How do they join? Do they ever pay? These are the things I ask myself when I… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had… — Susan Shreve Copy Share Image
In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote,… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
I'm more than a little suspicious of humor in poems, because I think it can at times be a way of getting… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under a lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image