France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse's… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
The thing I liked about writing about food when I started it was that I felt I was writing about food in… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Every fool is lucky, and the fool is a humble writer. / Todo tonto tiene suerte, y el tonto un humilde escritor.” — John F. Bisner Urena Copy Share Image
“Every writer in this book has a slightly different process, but they all start with the same thing: a blank page.” — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind… — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
My first act as president is a prayer. I ask you to bow your heads: Heavenly Father, we bow our heads and… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sarah [Silverman] writes her own jokes. She doesn't just go through her life and talk about everything. She sits down and crafts… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
If you let anything infringe on your writing time, it will. And you won't get the writing done. Taking one day off… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
[On the New Testament:] I ... must enter my protest against the false translation of some passages by the men who did… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
“I had become wiser, I tried to find out what irony really is, and discovered that some ancient writer on poetry had… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his… — Louis Zukofsky Copy Share Image
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Yes, I do write poetry. It's very therapeutic. I'm influenced by Pablo Neruda and Gulzar Saab. It's all very personal. — Vivek Oberoi Copy Share Image
The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
“...printing and the proliferation of written materials allowed ordinary people to be members of any number of relational communities.” — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
In general, I'm careful when I'm dealing with subjects of deep cultural importance and write with abandon when I'm dealing with issues… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
Feeling is always first for me in anything. I think the only way for sure that I know how do that is… — Brother Ali Copy Share Image
I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I always talk about the reporters that grovel when they wanna write something that you wanna hear but not necessarily millions of… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I love writing things down so pretty much every card I send to friends or family is an over enthusiastic essay. I've… — Rae Morris Copy Share Image
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I… — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
In 'Underground,' you have to write for everyone, even the bad guys. People need to laugh and love and have voices and… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
“However, as Bordo herself notes, the problem with the adoption of postmodern ideas in general is that they have led some writers… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“Thus far, the only people who can grant you immortality are not scientists, but writers. By writing you into their books, they… — Charbel Tadros Copy Share Image
In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, 'Listen to me, see… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Just going through a lot in my life, becoming more confident in myself, writing my own music and just really getting in… — Paris Hilton Copy Share Image
When people think of diversity, they think people of color, but it also means women, who are severely underrepresented as directors, writers… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image