I remember, at MIT, we had to write an essay about something mathematical that you do in your extra time. I basically… — Payal Kadakia Copy Share Image
I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“I read a book, am vortexed in with no escape; my face contorts, eyelids frost, breath comes short, body longs, heart stop-starts.… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
I write my novels in English first; then they are translated into Turkish by professional translators. Then I take their translation and… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they… — Steven Cojocaru Copy Share Image
Writing's deeper function is to serve as a way to find shapes and names for the world as you have come to… — Peter Stillman Copy Share Image
It's pretty cool that artists like Flo Rida and Bingo Players can be inspired to interpret a song like 'Piano in the… — Brenda Russell Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a theme song for a TV show I always think, "What would be Pavlovian where a kid would be… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
'Lovelace' was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can't get… — Cory Hardrict Copy Share Image
“When you enter the woods of a fairy tale and it is night, the trees tower on either side of the path.… — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
You go out into the world, you read everything you can read, you imitate the things you love, and you learn how… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Mentally, I write myself a little story. Of course, sometimes you have a song that says, "Do that." My best example is… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
Whether it's a song you write or a television show or a movie or professional wrestling, there are three components to IP… — Jeff Jarrett Copy Share Image
I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There are so many directors that I want to work with, but I can't tell you that there's one role. If I… — Ayelet Zurer Copy Share Image
This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I wish I would have been more of a maker. I wish I would have been more of a writer. I wish… — Claire Dederer Copy Share Image
You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
A lot of my writing is done on the road so I can take the music on my iPod, work out a… — Jay Sean Copy Share Image
Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
People are falling in love with characters now, and that is why writers are creating such stories. I am really happy that… — Rajkummar Rao Copy Share Image
“What's writ is what's read, yet the meaning is gone, since context is what gives each quote its own home.” — Will Advise Copy Share Image
All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Text books are just intelligence written down in a boring way; hands on activities are intelligence at work — Mung-Hua Shen Copy Share Image
There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
In the meantime [1963-65], [Bob] Dylan was writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Girl From the North… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
In comics, my experience has been mostly artists whose visual storytelling chops are either weak or they're more invested in rushing to… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
“He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Before the spread of alphabetic writing, systems making much use of logograms were more common and included Egyptian hieroglyphs, Maya glyphs, and… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
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