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I'm writing as I'm reading. I'm constantly already engaged in dialogue with the critics. None of these are my ideas solely. They… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
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I got a degree in English from Brigham Young University, but I didnt study creative writingjust literature. I was too much a… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I have visions and ideas about different things. Other actors just inspire you, so writing is something I would love to do… — Emayatzy E. Corinealdi Copy Share Image
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In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
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I remember writing a song when I was about 15. This is the one I can remember. I know I'd been writing… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
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An acquaintance of mine, a notary by profession, who, by perpetual writing, began first to complain of an excessive wariness of his… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
When I was first writing 'Feed' - which was the first book I published as Mira - I talked about it very… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In my writing I wanted to be liked for writing really unlikeable stuff. There were books that people, particularly women, hated so… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
I have the same interests as women. Well, apart from football and music, obviously. I've always had as many female friends as… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“The language of worldview tends to imply, to paraphrase the Catholic writer Richard Rohr, that we can think ourselves into new ways… — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an… — John Howe Copy Share Image
I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul.… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I can probably earn more in an hour of writing or even teaching than I could save in a whole week of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
You keep working on your piece over and over, trying to get the sections and paragraphs and sentences and the whole just… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?" My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Quite, quite,' she thought with a little sigh. 'It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved. I wish… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
If you can find two poems in a book, it could be a pretty good book for you. You know, two poems… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“Ron Carlson says, 'The most undervalued craft device that fiction writers need is empathy. You need to be able to actually imagine… — Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Copy Share Image
Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If we are to say that religion cannot be concerned with politics then we are really saying that there is a substantial… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart,… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
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