We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past… The Bible's "Israel" is a… — Thomas L. Thompson Copy Share Image
Many writers write across difference of one kind or another. Sometimes the difference is large and recognizable: gender, or race, or religion,… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To witness the awe of human beings delighting in their own hands forming the written word was humbling and he understood it… — T.K. Naliaka Copy Share Image
With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I love films from all these different points of views that used the idea of the school as a way to talk… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Consequently, after the fall of Greece, the pursuit of education philosophy and science almost ceased to exist. Humanity suddenly shunned the wonderful… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
'M Train' will take you in and out of dreamscapes and reality and remembrances with prose so spare and matter-of-fact that it… — Wendi McLendon-Covey Copy Share Image
“When reading a book, one hopes it doesn’t turn into a painful process. Predictable is bad enough. Laborious is acceptable if the… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
As an actor, it's a relatively passive job unless you're generating your own content or writing your own content. So to a… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
Sometimes a creditor is willingto do this as a bargaining point - you give the creditor cash in hand, it gives you… — Jean Chatzky Copy Share Image
I love the beautiful distractions of the world - television and movies, video games, the Internet in general. But I try really… — Nick Petrie Copy Share Image
“Life is like a movie. Just roll up a film. When you finish it, just be kind and rewind. Don't live it… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
I'm definitely inspired by music; I feel like I can express a part of myself, a part of my heart and my… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
“A poetess is not as selfish as you assume. After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride— and spaces—the groom,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“A good writer is also an avid reader. A good reader is also a vivid dreamer. A good dreamer is also a… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, for the vast majority of us, a vast majority of the time, we surrender our true autonomy to this illusion of… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The best time to write is when your life is in the toilet. Writing offers an escape from your problems, so if… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
If we fulfill our responsibility to the Constitution, the Supreme Court will be filled with superior legal minds who will pursue the… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
Then you develop a kind of critical sense about what you write. You can tell when something is good, but it would… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
If you just look at the number of roles for women versus the number of roles for men in any given film,… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
It's often said that elephants are the most human of animals - there's something comical about their acquiescence, and tragic also. The… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
Jesus was a storyteller with amazing messages wrapped around them. What we want to do is get back to that. I'm not… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I hope our legacy will be enduring and that people think of us as an important band. But I think Ricky's guitar… — Kate Pierson Copy Share Image
“No, I am just writing this because, sometimes, you’re still all I have to write about. Sometimes you’re the only thing that… — Moriah Pearson Copy Share Image
“I wanted to write some words you'd remember. Words so alert they'd leap from the paper, crawl up your shoulder, lie by… — C.L. Foster Copy Share Image
Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
If Mad Men had taken place in the '90s it would have been just as believable. But the fact is that was… — Christina Hendricks Copy Share Image
Because I'm a bald, dim-witted writer, people think I couldn't possibly be her husband, so they occasionally confuse me for someone more… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
