. . . [Y]ou must understand that we have always considered the writing of books a hindrance to our work, and that… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I want to write about serious things, but I want to write about them in a way that makes them accessible to… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere "extension language". It should be a… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
People ask me all the time if I'm from a family of writers. The literal short answer is no, but my father… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means. Even the fastidious and unhappy who cannot read his books without a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“When I write poetry, I’ll write it down, or a tiny bit of it, and then have to depend on the reader… — William Anderson Copy Share Image
A cardinal rule of writing is never interrupt yourself to explain something. If you must bring up an obscure topic, drop informative… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I always knew I was going to do something with music, but with my whole family being in the business, acting was… — Aubrie Sellers Copy Share Image
When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books."… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
While the storytelling in games is getting so much better, you look at something like Grand Theft Auto V, which I thought… — David Hayter Copy Share Image
It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They… — David Barton Copy Share Image
It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.;… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
First one gets works of art, then criticism of them, then criticism of the criticism, and, finally, a book on The Literary… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The "Kumulipo" is an old Hawaiian prayer chant that poetically describes the creation of the world. The word literally means "beginning-in-deep-darkness." Here… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
“I never went to college. I don’t believe in college for writers. I think too many professors are too opinionated and too… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes from a… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
“When all is said and done, the invention of writing must be reckoned not only as a brilliant innovation but as a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Military metaphors are rarely exact, but sending Republicans against Democrats when the issue hangs in the balance is nearly always as futile… — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
I have so much gratitude and love for Lena Dunham. She was one of the first people who saw me as a… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
If you are a professional writer - i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
“Surely, then, mere style, or language, never was, as it never could, naturally, it never could, possibly be praised, by well-informed readers;… — Percival Stockdale Copy Share Image
Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you. So I feel… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
I tend to write pretty much by myself. I always did that anyway. I used to write with Ron Strykert 'cause he… — Colin Hay Copy Share Image
I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
At the end of my first year, I realized I wanted to do more drama, so I actually started an extracurricular course… — Penelope Mitchell Copy Share Image
In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write… — Philippe Claudel Copy Share Image
The second book, which was probably more from a professional standpoint - when I read Junot Díaz's Drown, I was like, Oh… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
I enjoy working with writers and their scripts. It's very exciting to me. Eventually I would like to produce, direct and act… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
I write songs on a universal basis. I was born out of the earth of Jamaica which I consider to be a… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
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