Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft. The greater your vocabulary the more effective your writing. We… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I’ve had the pleasure of hearing The Novelists perform live. They are gifted songwriters and talented musicians with strong lead voices. This… — Daryl Stuermer Copy Share Image
The very act of committing an experience to the page is necessarily an act of reduction, and regardless of craft or skill,… — Bret Anthony Johnston Copy Share Image
Nothing can happen more than once, but everything must happen one day; Over hill and dale, wood and stream, my dying voice… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
Some years ago an excellent professor of economics told his class in his gravelly voice, 'If you pay me $50,000 a year… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
The concept of 'The Voice' has received acclamation worldwide. There will be blind auditions where the coaches will pick contestants without seeing… — Himesh Reshammiya Copy Share Image
Israel is extraordinary blessed to have [Benjamin Netanyahu] as prime minister at this pivotal time in history and so is the United… — Lou Dobbs Copy Share Image
When you did impressions on 'MADtv,' the producers gave you a Walkman that played huge sections of whatever movie was being parodied,… — Artie Lange Copy Share Image
Like Hemingway and Faulkner, but in an entirely different mode, Fitzgerald had that singular quality without which a writer is not really… — William Styron Copy Share Image
My voice kept going; I just couldn't work out what the hell was happening. I kept trying to have voice rest, or… — Fearne Cotton Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Once, hurrying through a busy airport to get to my gate on time for a connecting flight, I came upon a lady… — Kathy Troccoli Copy Share Image
I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What history teaches us is that man does not change arbitrarily; he does not transform himself at will on hearing the voices… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Now you are come! You tremble like a star Poised where, behind earth's rim, the sun has set. Your voice has sung… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
Where prominent writers are expected to have a socially, politically responsible voice, musicians sometimes find meaning only in the voice which produces… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
For me becoming a filmmaker was about taking back my voice - crafting stories that would move away from the problematic narratives… — Aurora Guerrero Copy Share Image
I watch the confusion of friends all numb with love moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night long conversations of… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price,… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Believe me, I think if I stopped writing when I left The Voice I would have quite a legacy. But the fact… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
What really brought out the voice that I have, my soul voice and true voice, was really not getting any work and… — Morgan James Copy Share Image
Women are quite unlike men. Women have higher voices, longer hair, smaller waistlines, daintier feet and prettier hands. They also invariably have… — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
I have worked with three female first assistant directors - on 'Hostiles,' 'Gone Girl,' and a short film, 'The Human Voice,' and… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
I saw the snares that the enemy spreads out over the world and I said groaning, "What can get through from such… — Anthony the Great Copy Share Image
I went through various phases of different accents - I get ridiculously obsessed with different accents, different regional ways of using the… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
Voiceover excited me and terrified me. I thought I was going to be really bad at it. It was so freeing and… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways - to the voices of quiet anguish, to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I got a Magic Sam record, 'West Side Soul,' and that just ruined me. His voice, pure power, and then his guitar… — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
She narrowed her eyes. “What is our heart’s desire?” “Vengeance.” His voice was soft, as if he were afraid that someone might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always dreamed of being a voice in a Disney movie, and even in those dreams, I never once dreamed of being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oxfam is part of a global movement for social justice. We mainly work to fight for economic and social rights for people… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
I'm not just a voice who wants to sing on anything. I co-produce, I want to select who comes in and plays… — Tyrese Gibson Copy Share Image
For me, at a very young age, I knew I wanted to be in the entertainment industry; I wanted to be an… — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
We realize the importance of light when we see darkness. We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced. In… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential… — Benny Green Copy Share Image