Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in… — Lucy Calkins Copy Share Image
Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem… — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writing it down, re-writing everything. But in… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I'd never written nonfiction about the war on drugs, but I know a tremendous amount about it: I taught a class on… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I mean when the book first came out it was not a bestseller, but it got good reviews and at that point… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
“This was the time when all we could talk about was sentences, sentences—nothing else stirred us. Whatever happened in those days, whatever… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
Someday I want to go back and maybe write another book on those seven sayings. I just think they are kind of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and… — Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien Copy Share Image
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“The obituary writers drew their incomplete sketches, touring through his life like travelers to England who do not ever see swans, sheep,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong… — Colleen O'Connor Copy Share Image
But who the fuck do we really put the blame on? The demons that are inside of her, or the ones who… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
“Eating and sleeping are the two periods in your life where writers get a pass for not reading. Check that. Only sleeping.” — Ted BELL Copy Share Image
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I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
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I write sometimes when I'm sad, I write sometimes when I'm lonely, I write sometimes when I'm afraid, but most of all… — Ana Chable Copy Share Image
Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material. — Brady Corbet Copy Share Image
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wasn't a kid who wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a doctor. I was kind of morbid. I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that… — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
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