“The primeval “pen,” for instance, is light, and the writing on the well- guarded tablet is a light of God, as the… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
I don't think that stuff is gone - I just don't want to dwell on it. There's a difference. As I said,… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Now if I believe in God's Son and remember that He became man, all creatures will appear a hundred times more beautiful… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Poets tend to form loose groups - the "Romantics" or the "Imagists". And sometimes they write manifestoes in the name of these… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
“The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on.… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I like to write without being stoned. I like to have a hit or two and then go punch up the writing.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
Most authors liken the struggle of writing to something mighty and macho, like wrestling a bear. Writing a book is nothing like… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
“DYER. No, I am not of your Mind, for the Dialogue was fitted up with too much Facility. Words must be pluckt… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Every single tune you know from the 1940s until the 1970s was written, arranged, and demoed in the Brill Building. OK, maybe… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
In Alien, Sigourney Weaver's role was written for a man. In Salt, Angelina Jolie's role was written for Tom Cruise. These things,… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
When I wrote the screenplay for 'Sleepwalk with Me,' I was imagining that another person would direct it. So I was using… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
“She had been trying to be honest with him, thinking her honesty would be winsome and that he would come to rescue… — Susan Breen Copy Share Image
“Even in some older literature, such as in the writings of Byzantine historian Philostorgius in the fifth century, Ararat was suggested as… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
I did a lot of this through writing flashbacks. Many of the flashbacks took place at Cal's school and I eventually cut… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
But the real intent of my writing is not to say, you must think in this way. The real intent is to… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
What I need to write is a complicated equation. Maybe if I knew I'd be one of those writers, one of the… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not. But, from writing… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the poems I've written which have historical context are hopefully not just simply plucking something out of history… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“...All of these writings could be reduced to mere “thought-provoking content,” for the system devours everything in its path like a never-satisfied… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
“Her study of the United States in 1837, Society in America—written after a ten-thousand-mile trek across the country that took two years—was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel - it's a very funny book I still… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Brother Kendrick Lamar: he's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author. And if you read between the lines, we'll learn… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
One of the things my friends would tell you is that I hang out with a lot of non-writers - just regular… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
The Bible contains legendary, historical, and ethical contents. It is quite possible to consider them separately, and one doesn't have to accept… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“I transform "Work" in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real "Work" - of writing.) for: the… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“If these Mount Everests of the financial world are going to labor and bring forth still more pictures with people being blown… — Gregory Peck Copy Share Image
“At the level of high culture with which this book is concerned, active bigotry is probably fairly rare. It is also hardly… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
