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The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Because of the wonderfully positive response to 'Life's That Way,' I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff - maybe another book.… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
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Tegus, I'm leaving this book behind for you, so you will know the why of it all, and maybe you'll forgive me,… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
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With a song, it only takes a couple of minutes to go back to the beginning and try it again to see… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
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Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in love. There… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Of course, among the confused motives that spurred me toward being a writer was also the desire to look, to be above… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
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The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
For 2,500 years, people have been writing odes. Why? I think that there's something innately human in wanting to praise the world… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I… — Amanda McKittrick Ros Copy Share Image
When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out. — Yael Naim Copy Share Image
I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
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I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Writing 'The Noonday Demon' turned me into a professional depressive, which is a weird thing to be. A class at the university… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I had many doubts while writing my autobiography. I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested to read about my life. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
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Allan Cubitt has written exceptional material, and I feel very privileged to be working with him and the very talented cast. — Colin Morgan Copy Share Image
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Walking is very good for writers. There's something fundamentally useful about not talking to anybody, not looking at a screen, and being… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
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