I always have done work on mythic relations since I started writing. I really want to be a novelist, or at least… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
When script is written well, then you start to make decisions of, "Well, do I want to be away from home for… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I never actually do rehearsals. That's one of the reasons that I write those bios and if I can meet with the… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies…Fiction is democratic, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Wherever I go, I'll always see you. You'll always be with me. And there's no happy ending coming here, no way a… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
“In the final analysis, it is not critics who create literary canons, it is other writers who create them … A writer… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
People still make New Year's resolutions? Wow. I figured those were pointless once I perfected myself by directing, writing, and acting in… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Newt spun, making her robe unfurl. “He’s my familiar, bought and paid for. I can claim anything of his. Even his life.”… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
I get letters every week from people who live in rural Texas or rural Mississippi and who feel totally alone. They feel… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I sometimes have to think about that because if I think about these five things and think of them all, I'll drop… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
There are writers, and I know some of them, who are very disciplined. Who write, like, four pages a day, every day.… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. When I was young I longed to write a great… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
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I always thought it would be funny to have the Parents Television Council write an episode of 'Family Guy' and give them… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
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“The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Perhaps, it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
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“I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money… — M.V. Carey Copy Share Image
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I spent days and nights staring at the blank page, searching the deepest corners of my mind: who have I been, what… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The Writer's Oath I promise solemnly: 1. to write as often and as much as I can, 2. to respect my writing… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
In re-reading 'Presumed Innocent,' the one thing that struck me - and I re-read the book four different times in writing 'Innocent,'… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
For so long, the model for writing has been, you sit in a room alone for a number of days or weeks… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
The thing that helps me do a good job is that I don't feel the need to explain everything about the world… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“When God communed with these ancient writers, He did not inform them that the seat of emotion is actually the brain rather… — Aaron R. Yilmaz Copy Share Image
For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being… — Origen Copy Share Image
There are many people who get beat up, who suffer, who are victimized, and then they sit down to write and they… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The best thing anyone can do is be himself. Everyone was made different by God, and that's the way it should be.… — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness you think it is… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image