Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
We had met with Ben Stiller here in LA when I was shooting The Ring and he was doing Meet The Fockers… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
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Now I don't drink, and I get up in the morning and I write in my diary, and I can write in… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
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I think the second, or outsider's, perspective can come as you layer a story. It's as though you've grabbed a secondary character… — Tom Barbash Copy Share Image
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I've never conceptualized much of what I write about. Maybe, once I'm onto something, I'll conceptualize a finished record. I want the… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
It's really exciting and also it makes me nervous, because I'm like, "Well, I figured out how to perform this episode, but… — Judy Greer Copy Share Image
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Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
The song writing is different because with this stuff, I write it on my own and with Hot Water, we're more of… — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
“In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and… — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
Tulips come up in spring for no reason. Of course, you planted bulbs and now in April the earth warms up. But… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The way that 'Vampire' was born was over a lunch. We got asked to do the show. A week later, we were… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child… My hemmings and hawings over… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I improvise whenever I feel it's important, or whenever I think that something's there. It's nice to have a script that's so… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Two things happened. The creative side of my career was harmed. When I'd sit down and write under the influence of coke,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
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Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
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The rule is: the word 'it's' (with apostrophe) stands for 'it is' or 'it has'. If the word does not stand for… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid. I just sort… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
For one, the nonverbal aspects of music are the most important to me. Then, whatever sort of emotion the music carries, intrinsically,… — Luke Temple Copy Share Image
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I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
I like to believe that stories want to be written, that they must make an effort in order to be heard. They… — Rodrigo Rey Rosa Copy Share Image
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I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
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