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I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
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I start out to write five days a week, and then it runs to six days and finally seven. Then, eventually, that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I think the celebrity author trend reflects, at least in part, the growing influence of marketing departments at publishing companies. The emphasis… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
“... All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive me, when I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You have to have an eye and a feeling for where things go. Writing visually, writing textually, writing sonically. Text is visual… — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“The Austrian writer Robert Musil summed up the Fanatic's great rhetorical advantage in just ten words: There is no truth which stupidity… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
Many people become self-conscious when they communicate. Whether it's writing or speaking, they are consumed by anxiety. Self-consciousness is an impediment to… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
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The tone of good web writing grows out of email. It's more direct, personal, colloquial, urgent, witty, efficient. It doesn't waste your… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
I do a lot. I don't like to sit still. I am pretty spontaneous. I like to cook a lot. I like… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
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When people reflexively write checks to institutions that have billions of dollars in the bank, they are essentially committing a moral crime.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn’t exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
Everybody has a talent, whether it's scrapbooking, or kite-flying, or brain surgery, or writing, everybody has a talent. And if they discover… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I would be so mad if I saw something called a memoir, and then it was Mike Birbiglia. It would be so… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
“Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write… — Lili St. Crow Copy Share Image
I was talking to Jackson Browne on the phone. He said, 'I'm the slowest writer in the world.' I said, 'No, no,… — Gregg Allman Copy Share Image
Sometimes touring can warp reality because you're never in one place long enough to get a feel for it. You don't interact… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I can honestly say, there was a moment when I was writing 'Upstream Color' where I fell so hard for what it… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in… — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say - that's… — Anatoly Rybakov Copy Share Image
Part of living, part of becoming a wise man or a wise woman, is to get to that point where you can… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“You have the Elements to write a grand Tale,” Kai said with a sad smile. “But you will not rewrite Story.” He… — Marissa Burt Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
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Whatever I've worked on, I've always tried to make my writing personal. I think that's what makes my books somewhat different from… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might… — Mick Ralphs Copy Share Image
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