A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Every film-maker while writing a screenplay comes to a landmark point in the plot where he thinks a scene can be narrated… — Manoj Kumar Copy Share Image
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The real question is what to live for. And I can't answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
The academy is an incredibly sheltered world, and I do think it's important for writers to get out from under that shelter,… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live. — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters. — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Up to a few years ago nearly all the literature about Oceania was written by papalagi and other outsiders. Our islands were… — Albert Wendt Copy Share Image
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I write my music with the idea that it will appeal to all of those people, and I want them to go… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
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It really was something, to see Ram Bahadur Bomjon, apparently living without food or water. Before I went on that trip I'd… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“...guided the sentence that was drawing to an end towards that which was waiting to begin, now hastening, now slackening the pace… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in… — Julian Coolidge Copy Share Image
I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
“Only those who’re high on the herb can truly appreciate Marley. Lean back, enjoy life and really listen to him. '…every little… — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel like a British writer more so than I feel like an American writer. But I think that has to… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I didn't set out to write. It was just something I always could do. Teachers would say, 'you really have this gift,'… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people. — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
It's that beautiful thing to love your weaknesses, your insecurities, and then put them all on blast. That's why I started writing,… — Banks Copy Share Image
Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it.… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania-that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I was halfway through writing a gothic, country house mystery when, out of the blue, I received an email inviting me to… — Roland Orzabal Copy Share Image
The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do… — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young,… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
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