“Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and… — Lajos Egri Copy Share Image
“So what? What difference does it make?” How should this concept be applied? Is the biblical writer applying his idea? Where does… — Haddon W. Robinson Copy Share Image
Everybody has to share something. This is one of the most important laws of the human condition, is the necessity to share.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Years ago when I got stuck, I'd start twirling my hair. That's not possible anymore. I can't prove the relationship between writing… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
The balance between literature and philosophy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is different from that struck in the novella, but, as Mann clearly… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“From the early days of its existence, cryptology had served to obscure critical portions of writings dealing with the potent subject of… — David Kahn Copy Share Image
I definitely think of myself still as a writer first, and feel like - with the lucky exception of this - any… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I got signed to a development deal when I was 15. That fell through after about a year when the company merged… — Lights Copy Share Image
Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
I don't think things necessarily should have a meaning. If stuff has a meaning then why do [writing] about it? If you're… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Writers, by their very nature, live a thousand lives and die a thousand times. They experience loss each time a character dies. … — Larry Ray Palmer Copy Share Image
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
“CARE program components increase in complexity across sessions and are augmented by individual reflective writing and group discussion. Teachers are given a… — Patricia A. Jennings Copy Share Image
When you're in the editing room, as a director, you get the opportunity to look at your work. As a writer, you… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I wonder if Karl Ove Knausgård would've written the same books today had been using Twitter. It wasn't around when he was… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I don't think people need to know much about me to understand the book, or to enjoy it. The book stands by… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“The moon is the better storyteller for this event. Our ancient craters are smoothed over by erosion and tectonic motion. With no… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
'If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn't a single and… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
All of modern acting comes from Stanislavski, who was the Russian partner to Chekhov. When Chekhov was writing his plays, Stanislavski was… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent… — Irving Berlin Copy Share Image
“The writer's characters must stand before us with a wonderful clarity, such continuous clarity that nothing they do strikes us as improbable… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
You plant a garden one flower at a time. ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
I was taught to lie at a young age. . . . I think that [A PARK IN OUR HOUSE] describes what… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
“In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
At the time I write, the glory of the truffle has now reached its culmination. Who would dare to say that he… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
“He could have told George a writer creates a character as a way to reveal consciousness, increase the flow of meaning. This… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Of course you want someone special to love you. A majority of the people who write to me inquire about how they… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Working with other artists and writers over the past couple years has really given me a clear idea of my strengths and… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was… — Shane Filan Copy Share Image
I was naïve when I was young, I was sheltered. I had illusions about who I was going to be, delusions, and… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
![“I don't think things necessarily should have a meaning. If stuff has a meaning then why do [writing] about it? If you're trying to say, 'Tall buildings are great' why not just leave it at that: "Tall buildings are great."” quote by Jonathan Meades](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/75f/jonathan-meades-15966_building_i-don-t-think-things-necessarily-should_714145.jpg)
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