My dad, he's definitely one of greatest writers of his generation. There is no question about it. When you are that good,… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“She had a brief affair with a novelist, W. L. River, whose Death of a Young Man had been published several years… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“These essays were written at various times over a thirty-year period, to express special discoveries, to serve special needs. But they all… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I was raised to be modest to the point of fanaticism. In my family, we don't talk about ourselves to each other.… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
Writing has been challenging at times but that's where all the growth is. I know I'm in the right place if it's… — Geoff Thompson Copy Share Image
“At the conference I was asked whether all Yugoslav writers were now forced to live in exile. I answered that I was… — Nina Živančević Copy Share Image
I was starting to write and I was like, Okay, I'm going to cast myself in my own thing.' You have so… — Phoebe Dynevor Copy Share Image
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open-hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I want to write, direct, produce, but in steps. I want to take steps. I don't want to just jump in because… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“It is an old observation that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric. When they do so, however, the reader… — William Strunk Jr Copy Share Image
When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
I've had students at Yale: my main task with them in drama school was not helping them with their writing but showing… — John Guare Copy Share Image
“Johnson argued that the most truthful life-writing is when ‘the writer tells his own story’, since only he knows the whole truth… — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The tragic fear and pity may be aroused by the Spectacle; but they may also be aroused by the very structure and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Because I wake up late, my day is often short. I'm much more active in the evenings, during which I alternately read,… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
There is something false in this search for a purely feminine writing style. Language, such as it is, is inherited from a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The exit from agony is always there. The tunnel out of the agony sector is always in front of you and yet… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Writing has nothing to do with publishing. Nothing. People get totally confused about that. You write because you have to - you… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Dear Darlin, please excuse my writing. I cant stop my hands from shaking 'Cause Im cold and alone tonight. I miss you… — Olly Murs Copy Share Image
It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of being an older woman in films,is that you don't care as much about so many things. There… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
“Instead of making myself write the book I ought to write, the novel that was expected of me, I conjured up the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“He looked down at the desk, at his notebook resting there with the pen on top. He had never thought of engineering… — Sam Starbuck Copy Share Image
I guess I still feel that way and yet I'm slightly hesitant to insist on that idea, that it "better be fun… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“The finest SF comes to grips with life's mysteries, with our resentments against our own natures and our limited societies. It does… — George Zebrowski Copy Share Image
“Style is not how you write. It is how you do not write like anyone else. * * * How do you… — Charles Ghigna Copy Share Image
I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
