“No other writer ever achieved such a direct transference of self to paper. The Book of Disquiet is the world’s strangest photograph,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
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A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
“In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I… — Patti Stanger Copy Share Image
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I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations.… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“At the height of the Cultural Revolution, rather than risk having to face dire consequences for his accumulated writings, he burned several… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Four very strange and truly poetic human beings in this century have attained mastery in prose, for which this century was not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To me living and music are all the same thing. And I keep finding out more about music as I learn more… — McCoy Tyner Copy Share Image
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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When I listen to my songs, they seem like pieces of music or art, like a painting that you look at. The… — Martha Wainwright Copy Share Image
I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Not all the lyrics are topical - sometimes that is just the setting. They are all pretty much interpersonal. For some reason… — Tim Presley Copy Share Image
“I eat, breath and sleep and that makes me like everyone else. When I write, I become something much greater than flesh… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
I have taken film-work that has been a little more cliché-written, to support myself and my family, and that's a whole kind… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
“I provoke thought, because that is what needs provoking. Humanity seems to hate thinking more than any other activity, and yet that… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
'Victorious' for me was a chance to write a song exactly how I was feeling - I was feeling triumphant, I was… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You know how some people are upwardly mobile? I'm sort of downwardly mobile in the publishing world, because of my sales figures… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I think writing letters is a lost art, but nowadays it's something that means even more, because it's so easy to communicate… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Basically, I am a night owl. My wife is an early bird, so she goes to bed around 9:30, and my kids… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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