I find if you're targeting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X right from the start, your code will probably work anywhere else… — Ryan C. Gordon Copy Share Image
We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it,… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“…the art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea…. It is on the back of an idea, something… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To… — Enid Bagnold Copy Share Image
A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
I write romance, women's fiction, chicklit. I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Great leaders are great storytellers. These leaders know that they must tell powerful stories to engage and enlist their followers. They know… — Nick Morgan Copy Share Image
I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Writers will see your work and want to try you in different things but I think you have to stay true to… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
“...when I was successful, but accused of arrogance, I wanted to drag every journalist who misunderstood to this place, and make them… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When I'm sitting at my computer writing, I really have this fiendish smile on my face. I am not thinking about the… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of… — Micheal Mac Liammoir Copy Share Image
I know too many playwrights, or would-be playwrights, or would-have-been playwrights, that are around my age, who were bitter or have gone… — Jennifer Tipton Copy Share Image
“If anyone shall set the authority of Holy Writ against clear and manifest reason, he who does this knows not what he… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
Like Hemingway and Faulkner, but in an entirely different mode, Fitzgerald had that singular quality without which a writer is not really… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The stage I chose--a subject fair and free-- 'Tis yours--'tis mine--'tis public property. All common exhibitions open lie, For praise or censure,… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
“Calvin: I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
By the time I got to college I had stopped reading books because I wanted to "be cool" and started reading books… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
As "Calvin and Hobbes" went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity. One of the jokes I really like is… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
They put me in an office with the TV set up and said "Here's the tape. When you're finished writing your copy… — Julie Davis Copy Share Image
“I can be funny, because I have time to meditate about how to be funny, and I can repair my mistakes when… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets. Lover and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“I have spent these several days past, in reading and writing, with the most pleasing tranquility imaginable. You will ask, "How that… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“I have great respect for writers who are humble, whose language allows the reader to see the story but doesn't get in… — Jennifer Haigh Copy Share Image
And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
People have told me that everything about me, every facet of my life, psyche, experiences, dreams, and fears, are laid out explicitly… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
When writing music for the 'Kaddish,' I evoked the prayers that were sung in Eastern Galicia, Ukraine and Romania. I was advised… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue).… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
There are personal topics on the record that have nothing to do with creativity but were maybe amplified by the demands of… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
