The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
There's lots of good movies where you feel that the dialogue could be improvised, but very little was. The "Big Lebowski" was… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
If you're going to write about something it becomes a damn sight more interesting than if you're not going to write about… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I have a philosophy that everything you write doesn't have to be good for everybody. There are going to be people that… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
'Presumed Innocent' was written over a six to seven year period with intervals in between where I was figuring out the end… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
While I did a lot of research, I ended up feeling that the best way to write about grief was to describe… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Every now and then, I need a little spark of inspiration. It could be from reading (a novel, poetry, story, news article,… — Sandra Proto Copy Share Image
Everything I've ever felt, but could never put into words, is poetically orchestrated through Mat Devine 's writing. In a lonely world,… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
“I daydream often and sometimes my daydreams interrupt my daydreams. So I write to remember them. If I didn't write, I think… — Regan Walsh Copy Share Image
We write for actors and even down to the smallest character in the film, they all have their moment. You take that… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
Just as some of the most ardent political ideologues in the West are young people, revolutionaries, the '60s generation, - in Islam… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many… — John Updike Copy Share Image
So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
“My goal from the outset was to write a novel that perfectly balanced crime and romance. It’s not unusual to see detectives… — C.R. Lemons Copy Share Image
“There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It’s time to write dangerous music. It’s time to take risks. It’s time to wear your heart on your sleeve, and sing… — John Mark McMillan Copy Share Image
It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
I started out as an actor, but I forced myself to be a writer, even though I wasn't very good at it… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them in a deep way.… — Natasha Bedingfield Copy Share Image
“tity of her priesthood; 20 but she has never condi tioned the validity of a Sacrament on the moral worthiness of the… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
I think I wanted to be a storyteller because I had a very active dream life. My life was boring, and I… — Joseph McGinty Nichol Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the ratio of time spent reading versus writing is well over 10 to 1. We are constantly reading old code as… — Robert C. Martin Copy Share Image
I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
When I go beyond a certain range it's outside of my direct horizon therefore I've got to rely on the writings and… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Although, from the point of view of sociology, the overt ambition of 'American Pastoral' - to imagine the impact on a good… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
A lot of things that should not be written were written without checking with me, things that were not in good taste.… — Mohammad Azharuddin Copy Share Image
I guess like any writer or screenwriter I'm alone in my own world so much of the time that I'm often trying… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I like Twitter more than Facebook. Twitter is a great way to deliver and get news. In news writing less is more… — Tom Llamas Copy Share Image
“Artists are nothing but expert time killers, filling up the hours by entertaining themselves. But the ones who think they're changing the… — S.P. Miskowski Copy Share Image
One of my central approaches to writing speculative fiction is to take an absurd situation, which we presently feel is normal, and… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Every time when it comes to writing a book, I think, "I'm the last person in the world that should be doing… — David Toop Copy Share Image
I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
When I'm writing film music, I feel like I'm more a filmmaker than a composer. It's more about what the film needs.… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
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