I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence… — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
I really just wanted to write about three brothers. When you do that, though, it gives you this wonderful opportunity to tie… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
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Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
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I write like anyone involved with a family and a full time job: in stolen moments. I've had to adapt because I… — Vandana Singh Copy Share Image
An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues!… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
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I love to read and teach experimental fiction but yes, neither this work nor my first novel is really that experimental. It… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
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I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board… — John Updike Copy Share Image
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I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth --… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain… — Arcangela Tarabotti Copy Share Image
Most of my columns at National Review focus on PC culture, and sometimes, when I write about some idiotic, anti-free-speech idea presented… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
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A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I am saying what comes out, because I'm really not a methodical writer. I'm not a good building writer, where you are… — William Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
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I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
Our whole intention was to make a record of songs that we grew up with and change them up a little bit,… — Bart Millard Copy Share Image
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In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we never bothered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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