No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I'm okay for things like theater and stuff but for film, I just didn't think in the right way and I didn't… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
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We, including many Christians, read the Bible through "eyes" conditioned by, and even accommodated to, modern Western culture plus the influences of… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the… — Estelle Copy Share Image
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When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
There are many important books on oral history. My book was the launch title in the Understanding Qualitative Research series with Oxford… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
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In America, if your next-door neighbor has a Rolls-Royce, you want one too. But in England, if your neighbor has a Rolls-Royce,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
My wonderful editor, Jackie Onassis, asked me to write a book that I wanted to write. I said, 'Look, it's not going… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
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“I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched old sailors on the shore… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Finally and most important of all, authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
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