History has proven that it's impossible to crush the artist. There's always gonna be a need for somebody to write a poem… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
After the novel was published, I came to feel that I couldn't call myself Orthodox anymore. It's so patriarchal, anti-women, anti-gay. There… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just… — Jack Germond Copy Share Image
I get to play with pop music and mix up the style. It's fun to play with party music and nice to… — Nomi Ruiz Copy Share Image
When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Although Britain has, since 1653, had nothing approaching a single, codified constitution, it did for a very long time possess a broad… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“Most of the ideas I’ve gotten for novels or screenplays have occurred to me while I was either shaving or taking a… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
I was driven, as have been many writers, both by a repulsion of the childhood home's narrow confines and a desire to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon.… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
“One of the elements of writing that is most delightful to the engaged reader is the element of surprise. And one of… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
Essentially, the scripts are not that different. Let's say, in literary terms, it's the difference between writing horizontally and writing vertically. In… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“Where was life? It dissipated, vanished into thin air, and my life stood weighed and found wanting because it had no ready-made… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
To maintain a youthful mind, write down two or three things you can do that are totally childlike, such as eating an… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I can be really silly when I'm not actually writing silliness, and I have to rein that in. Pynchon, in my opinion,… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
You had censorship. If you brought a manuscript to the publisher, you knew he would suggest changes. If you wanted to write… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
I hope, my career is never predictable. And my interests are diverse in that way. I feel very lucky that when I'm… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When they do bring on new people, it's good for the show. It's like getting a new toy. The writers enjoy it… — Mark-Paul Gosselaar Copy Share Image
“One writer said that the door of history turns on small hinges, and so do people’s lives. If we were to apply… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
In fact, when I finally realized I was really going to write, when I was about thirty-four, I was working on my… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I always feel super uncomfortable when it's like ah, there probably has to be a sex scene. I feel really bad and… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I once had a young musician come to me and say that he wanted to be a professional musician. I asked him… — Phil Keoghan Copy Share Image
“In writing short stories—as in writing novels—take one thing at a time. (For some writers, this advice I'm giving may apply best… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
“Treat your relationship with your writing as an important one. Seperti hubungan kamu dengan pacar, teman-teman dan keluarga. Temukan komitmen untuk terus… — Winna Efendi Copy Share Image
“ (About her brief experience writing greeting cards...) I even wrote for a greeting card company -- for about a month. A… — Donna J. Stone Copy Share Image
I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
There are many other writers whose work I admire tremendously, but none whose work struck me at just the right young age.… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
In a given scene I may know nothing more than how it's supposed to end, most of the time not even that.… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
