“Realize that by hurting your own characters, you are not a sadist. You are not deliberately hurting your loved ones merely to… — James Chartrand Copy Share Image
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Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
It's only five rappers out of Atlanta who bussin and I'm one of 'em; the other four you know who you are;… — T.I Copy Share Image
“It ratified a theory of mine that great writing could sneak up on you, master of a thousand disguises: prodigal kinsman, messenger… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I didn't have to sell my soul for money. I didn't have to go through trap music; I could just help Ye… — Cyhi the Prynce Copy Share Image
“In times of extremes, extremists win. Their ideology becomes a religion, anyone who doesn't puppet their views is seen as an apostate,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Im going to school actually while were shooting. Im talking five, but I was just told that two are unavailable so Im… — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
My all time favorite band is Paramore and she's basically one of the reasons I was inspired... umm, well Hayley Williams from… — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
“you are a narcissist. That is the raison dêtre of the journal. Journal writing is a disease. But it's all right. It's… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Most writers in Mexico have had posts as ambassadors, secretaries - that is no longer the case. Now a writer can live… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Broken hearts, you can run, you can hide and perhaps the earth is big enough to believe you’re safe. So maybe for… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
If I could have written a show for myself, this would have been it. I really enjoy going to work. In New… — Matthew Morrison Copy Share Image
I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge… — George Burns Copy Share Image
“Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates and to have been deeply influenced by his teacher's unjust death.… — Plato Copy Share Image
It's a weird partnership. For me and Patrick, if you've met him, we're not very much alike. But we bring such different… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a… — Fred F. Fielding Copy Share Image
My brother could not write about trifles. Even in society he became animated only when some serious discussion was engaged in, and… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Good writing tends to present evidence rather than judgments. When the evidence is well presented, the reader’s judgments will agree with those… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions,… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
The first story I ever sold was to 'Argosy' magazine, which no longer exists. That issue also contained work by several other… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I didn't really think I would be a musician. I always thought I'd be a writer. I wanted to be a writer… — Leah Siegel Copy Share Image
I knew that I was writing for an American audience and that if I sold foreign rights, they would retranslate the book… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
In most of my films I write the music into the script. I'm listening to songs and lyrics that empower the themes… — Warwick Thornton Copy Share Image
It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Long before social media existed, the proto-tweets of advertising had penetrated American popular culture: 'A mind is a terrible thing to waste.'… — David Droga Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker, I'm a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate? Well, I'm not a… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
I really think you cannot ever escape your history, what you've done, who you are, and things you've tried to hide. Even… — Patrick Somerville Copy Share Image
I did a lot of sitting back and thinking about what I wanted for myself and what I wanted for my country:… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
Lately I haven't been able to write for the guitar - it'll usually start out with a melody on the bass, and… — Sarah Jaffe Copy Share Image
Throughout much of history, women writers have capitulated to male standards, and have paid too much heed to what Virginia Woolf calls… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“taught them that whether a piece of writing is a novel or a law, each person is the sole arbiter of what… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
