I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
Happiness is like a page of every hundred pages in the book called Life in sorrow. So, if you're sad then turn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar. — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
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Children's authors have to pick words that reflect the spirit of a book and convey its message but also words that light… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
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[Noah Hawley] just a fantastic writer. It's always about the script, it's always about the book; it always is. If it ain't… — Lauren Shuler Donner Copy Share Image
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Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult. — David Ogden Stiers Copy Share Image
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Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing… — Jim Crace Copy Share Image
“I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed… — Camille Desmoulins Copy Share Image
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
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I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Real life is often more literary than the works of literature. That’s because it doesn’t have to appear credible.” — Mikhail Iossel Copy Share Image
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The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long - wisely, I felt - shirked the challenge because… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Thai society rarely attempts to control literature in the same way that it vigilantly polices visual art. It's ironic because people in… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
“She feels "Brutal Dynasty" actually may become the Great American Novel she and her fellow critics have been looking for so long.” — Clyde Brion Davis Copy Share Image
Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or… — John Updike Copy Share Image
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He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there… — Martial Copy Share Image
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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