Usually I'm trying to turn something around or turn it inside out and see what's underneath. I know that probably sounds incredibly… — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image
Probably also due to the political situation getting just worse and more extreme, but also this distance and this sadness of this… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as… — David Wright Copy Share Image
“The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Historically, I guess that's how science fiction works: you start by using aliens to think the unthinkable and then, eventually, another… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I enjoy the challenge of taking something which was not meant for the piano, distilling its essence and writing or improvising it… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of the books that I've adapted I'm doing because I love the book and I feel like it's a great work… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I have multiple identities. I'm British. I'm Pakistani. I'm a Muslim. I'm a writer. I'm a father. And each identity has rich… — Ziauddin Sardar Copy Share Image
I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.' I'm only talking to myself. I'd… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
Enya never writes a bad melody. That's first and foremost her secret. As she goes along, she'll start changing the dynamics, pushing… — Nicky Ryan Copy Share Image
Bill Pullman is older than Aaron Eckhart - although I was older too - and the age difference changes the play. My… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, my patients will not even be postponed. Another surgeon would step in and take… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Writing about the past is a way of reliving it, a way of seeing it unfold all over again. We place memories… — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
Most of the time I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable - like I'm about to cry any second - and… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians… — Bradley Joseph Copy Share Image
“From the opening sentence, it is clear that we are in the presence of a writer with a distinctive voice and uncanny… — Jon Doust Copy Share Image
“Literature might be called the art of story, and story might in turn be called a universal language, for every culture we… — Andrea A. Lunsford Copy Share Image
I wish I was a prolific writing wondrous boy genius - I wish I was Stevie Wonder - but I wasn't. I… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you might enjoy, put… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
The inimitable writer Maxine Hong Kingston published a book in 2002 with the title To Be the Poet. However, in contrast to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the… — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to 'African-American.' My maternal grandmother… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Directly after Rock Hudson's death came the fears that gay writers and actors and directors would be denied jobs; who knew if… — Michael Shnayerson Copy Share Image
So the fact that there's someone who's planning what happens to the characters, writing it down, means that the characters always have… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
“I don’t know whether Asimov realized he was saying this as well, but as an old historical materialist, if only as an… — Samuel R. Delaney Copy Share Image
Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I would say if a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. But… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Although we had had no precise exponents of realism, yet after Pushkin it was impossible for a Russian writer to depart too… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
I don't think that I have much power at all, and I don't think that I'm trying to do anything outside of… — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
