As a writer, being produced and getting credits is essential: it's like being a horse running a race - and if the… — Matthew Jacobs Copy Share Image
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We find upon all occasions, the early Christian writers speak of the Father as superior to the Son, and in general they… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
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Justice O'Connor was the fifth vote to uphold the time-honored principle, which bears repeating, of separation of church and state. There was… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
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Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
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Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
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We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues.… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
You can sit and write in your room all you want, but until other people see it, until you see it produced… — Ed Brubaker Copy Share Image
The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Of course, they were other things too. Sometimes they were even everything all together, but not fame, which was rooted in delusion… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go.… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm creating my own oasis in my house. I've got a lot of calming, soothing things around my house. The way it's… — Ryan Guzman Copy Share Image
I'm very political. Because I read politics every day, so I'm familiar with the world. I approach the films is I'm trying… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
I happened to write a book about the stuff I've been involved in over the years. It just so happened that my… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
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“to paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow … we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains,… — Robert Krulwich Copy Share Image
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I emphasize the dual mission of the Life Cube Project: involving as many members of the community as possible; and encouraging people… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
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The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
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