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I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so… — Paddy Considine Copy Share Image
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I guess its better then a suicide note? Once my father was joking and laughing about people who killed their selves. Dad… — Jade Copy Share Image
You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Helen Lowe writes wonderful stories, yes, but her work also speaks with lyricism to deeper questions of how we treat each other.… — Catherine Asaro Copy Share Image
Writers displace their anxiety on to the tools of the trade. It's better to say that you haven't got the right pencil… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
In one way, it is this sense of order and also love that, I think, really saved Eleanor Roosevelt's life. And in… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
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What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
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A lot of artists are good cooks as I'm too, but coming from a culture that was very concerned with food, I… — Keith Sonnier Copy Share Image
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With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
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I'm not a standup. I didn't start off as a writer, I learned to write through improvisation, and so that's the part… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I tend to like the way poets form communities. Writing can be lonely after all. Modern life can be lonely. Poets do… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
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'Writing' always means 'not writing' to me because I will do anything to put it off. I think this is mainly because… — Catherine Tate Copy Share Image
Of course, there are hundreds of novels and authors that have influenced me. But to choose three, they are: Stephen King/The Stand… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history,… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
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