The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I… — Zara Larsson Copy Share Image
I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
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I use all types of instruments, really depending on the film. Instrument choices are very much tied to lighting, colors, art direction,… — Douglas Pipes Copy Share Image
I rely heavily on Thomas Sowell's magnificent book, Black Rednecks, White Liberals. He points out that blacks in the North perform better,… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I first started writing historical fiction in the late '70s and kept pictures of Kathleen Woodiwiss and Rosemary Rogers on my refrigerator… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, I'm not an activist. I'm not a non-fiction writer, I'm not a journalist. I'm not a foodie, I'm not… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
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I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors have an understanding… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
Not to say that the process assumes anything of "greater" or "lesser" importance, though: it's just more graphic information. Take the surrealists,… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
When I got the invitation to be part of 'The Ghost' or 'The Ghost Writer,' as it's now known, from Mr. Roman… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
My goal from the very beginning was just to write good songs that don't require any production to be felt or understood.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
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The words are clear as in the reflection of the world on the water. Therefore write the Word at once, everywhere, from… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
What Malcolm X did not know is that back in 1962, a collaborator of Alex Haley, fellow named - a journalist named… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
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Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it… — Dean Dillon Copy Share Image
There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The more boring a newspaper is, the more it is respected. The most respected newspaper in the United States is The New… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I think that's always been part of the thinking behind the script, that - and I really tried really hard to impress… — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
There have been studies concluding that most people mostly know people only within their own social class - although such a conclusion… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining. One, I rarely have anything to say.… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
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Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a second perhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
I was given a pen not to write anything but just to make me feel how it is to hold something full… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If something depressing is happening, that's gold. That's the best possible situation you could be in. But if that doesn't happen, you… — Eliot Paulina Sumner Copy Share Image
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The Malays, like the Japanese, have a most rigid epistolary etiquette and set forms for letter writing. Letters must consist of six… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
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Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.'… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I'm not an activist. I'm a filmmaker. I'm a dramatist. My strength is to tell a story, to find a way to… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
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