When I went to Stan Lee - every time I was with Stan, I learned something every day. When I would do… — John Romita, Sr Copy Share Image
“{ When Abraham Lincoln was 26 years old in 1835, he wrote a defense of Thomas Paine 's deism; a political associate,… — Roy Basler Copy Share Image
For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control… I think it's very much like dreaming or like… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm moving - as a person and as a writer - through time. I'm a different age. I'm thinking about different things.… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me,… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
A friend of mine helped me find my confidence by trusting the knowledge that I was not alone in writing my first… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
“If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially the… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
As an actress, I think it’s important to look back and realize that we aren’t always quite as original as we think… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
...compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“History deals with situations and figures not imaginary but real. It demands therefore a combination of qualities unnecessary to the poet or… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Karl Ove Knausgaard is one of my literary heroes. This distresses many of my female, queer, and trans friends: Torrey, you have… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
From a writing standpoint, maybe television is a little more satisfying because it's not all hinging on one thing. You can experiment,… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
Since I didn't spend a great amount of time on writing the lyrics, some people would argue that they're too vague or… — Jack Tatum Copy Share Image
Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass… — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
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As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“So build an audience. Speak, write, blog, tweet, make videos - whatever. Share information that's valuable and you'll slowly but surely build… — Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Matthew Linderman, 37 Signals Copy Share Image
“The most understandable trap is to wait for fear to subside before starting one’s journey. It doesn’t, won’t, and shouldn’t. Too much… — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I'm really annoyed by the wave of country music that's just a list of stuff. It almost sounds like L.A. people writing… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I hate the phrase “One thing led to another”. What kind of lazy writing is that? Isn't it your job as a… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
When I moved to London, I was working on music - producing, writing - and that's where I discovered DJing. I started… — Havana Brown Copy Share Image
Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I'm really happy that people are starting to hear my band, and we are so happy to be conduits for all this… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
First of all, anything Ryan Murphy is a part of is a good idea to be a part of. He's got just… — Mark Salling Copy Share Image
The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“I am writing this because on that night of the tenth of May in the 1,940th year of Our Lord, Churchill stood… — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
Dubliner seems to me to have some meaning and I doubt whether the same can be said for such words asLondoner and… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you… — Patty Griffin Copy Share Image
“The golden rule of fictional prose is that there are no rules - except the ones that each writer sets for him… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Still writing?" I usually nod and smile, then quickly change the subject. But here is what I would like to put down… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Intelligent, heartfelt stories that tell a whole new set of truths about growing up American. Julie Orringer writes with virtuosity and depth… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Those who write for children, or at least those who write best for children, are not child-like or immature, but they do… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore over hours of microfilm at the New… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
I think 'Overlord' has definitely benefited because I work with every single level designer, and working where we have space to tell… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
