In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
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A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge… — Barry Boehm Copy Share Image
It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, 'You know, you really are a… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was… — Michael Tolkin Copy Share Image
I think Stephen Crane too becomes trapped in a myth that poetry should be operating at a certain level, that there's the… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is… — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
I tend to basically exaggerate in life, and in writing, it's fine to exaggerate. I really enjoy overstating for the purpose of… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
“And yet sometimes it seems to me I am there, among the incriminated scenes, tottering under the attributes peculiar to the lords… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Without the hard we stay too soft, and heaven is reduced to myths like life. Theology aside, it’s plain to see that… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
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It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I live near San Francisco in the most beautiful spot on earth and enjoy myself in many ways. Yes, I love to… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go… — Joe Elliott Copy Share Image
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Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
The cave is a dark, shadowy place. It's a place that's very close and yet distant at the same time, and it's… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
The professionalization of poetry, or the balkanization, has come out of the fact that when you apply to most creative writing programs,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Acting is always the priority and I love doing what I do, but I'm also very interested in directing and writing and… — Skyler Gisondo Copy Share Image
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Ann and I were the main writers in Heart. We had the leadership role, and the guys in the band sometimes had… — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer. — John Amos Copy Share Image