“But why do you write?— A: I am not one of those who think with an inky pen in their hand, much… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Writing your own blog platform is like roasting your own coffee: it's impractical and you probably shouldn't do it, but for people… — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Headline writers love the phrase 'Power Grab,' but you can't really grab it, can you? Power is a greased watermelon, a wisp… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
I think that comes with a collaboration with the writers. I think that we get cast in edgier roles because we are… — Judy Greer Copy Share Image
How dare we, all these stupid evangelists walking around telling men after they've made some little prayer that they need to write… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
“Some writings spotted U.S. history said that the CIA agents who were watching the Communists, in the period after the Second World… — Mohamed Addakhakhny Copy Share Image
TV and film are very different media with different requirements. In a TV show, you have actors and fellow writers and directors,… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
I think about the collaboration between writers and readers, but I also think about the collaboration between all the writers in a… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
I don't think it's so important to be a movie director. It's a beautiful profession, but no more than to be a… — Jesus Franco Copy Share Image
Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared… — Susan Wittig Albert Copy Share Image
When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and… — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
“Writing places a person in the community of those imaginative spirits whom preceded their birth. Writing also connects a person with the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Some of the 'new woman' writers will someday start and idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
The raw beauty of Natalia Ginzburg’s prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all… — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Mostly I'm just writing books for the public, and so I try to describe for the public what the choices are, what… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“I’m engaged in the dance of the ages and the search for a song to go with it. Though Templeton’s A Veritable… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“A poem was a box for your soul. That was the point. It was the place where you could save bits of… — Andrea Ashworth Copy Share Image
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
What I like about 'Taboo' just in general, even in writing it, you are not certain what the motives are sometimes because… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“I'm a writer by profession and it's totally clear to me that since I started blogging, the amount I write has increased… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Because for some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I love the idea of directing, I'm not confident enough, but I'm more confident in, well, I'd love to write. I've sort… — Alexandra Daddario Copy Share Image
We got Arbitron diaries at my house in the 1980s, when the family was down to just my mother and me, and… — Hank Stuever Copy Share Image
I'm always very grateful for stories about the great coffeehouse wits in Vienna at the turn of the last century. People would… — David Salle Copy Share Image
We have so few unaffiliated public intellectuals now - people who are not beholden to a think tank, corporate-owned media, or academic… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The dragons I would write about would not be the rather generalized, big, green things that I had read about in storybooks.… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
“The other thing that I would say about writer's block is that it can be very, very subjective. By which I mean,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And what happened was, it's the same thing an older, more successful writer of ficition might say to a student: write about… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
“The first verses establish an immediate correspondence with what Revelation was later to recount about the creation of humankind: “He [God] taught… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation… — Mihai Nadin Copy Share Image
A lot of people think they can write poetry, and many do, because they can figure out how to line up the… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
“Writing letters...means to denude oneself before the ghosts, something for which they greedily wait. Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they… — Kafka, Franz Copy Share Image
In terms of my peer group, nobody's parents were dying of old age. There was no dialogue to have among friends. I… — Tamara Jenkins Copy Share Image
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