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They started doing it in reality TV, where writers don't have union protections and are easy marks for getting this kind of… — Patric Verrone Copy Share Image
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Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to… — Rex Murphy Copy Share Image
Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has… — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
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That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“On the great canvas of time We all create our own masterpiece. Choreographing our steps across minutes and hours Dancing over the… — Michele Jennae Copy Share Image
We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
The moment you know that this is the person with whom you want to spend the rest of your life, you should… — Kay Coles James Copy Share Image
That idea of not being exactly who you write as is so crucial. Even looking at those words as I type them,… — Lucas Mann Copy Share Image
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At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight,… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
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I used to wish I could write songs like the others - and I've tried but I just can't. I get the… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
hough I was creative, I also liked math and science. At Knox College, I studied creative writing and earned a degree in… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet… — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
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I don't think I ever have trouble with writer's block. It's different when you make it up as you go - that… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between a husband and his… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
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My preference is for good writing. It doesn't matter if it's for film or TV. Whatever. It starts with the writing. Even… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
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Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
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I have been writing JavaScript for 8 years now, and I have never once found need to use an uber function. The… — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
Old texts, myths, and religions have always fascinated me, though I prefer learning about them to writing papers and trying to make… — Tom Shields Copy Share Image
Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
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I told [a big investor in The New Yorker] - I was complaining the way writers complain.I said'[Bill Shawn] pays very well,… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
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